Jobsite Theater offers up a sexy and smart classic in Jean Genet's unequivocally literate 1947 play THE MAIDS, playing April 29 - May 22, 2016 in the Shimberg Playhouse at the Straz Center where Jobsite is resident theater company. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the cast in costume below!
THE MAIDS was French poet, novelist, art critic, essayist, and film-maker
Jean Genet's first play to be produced, coming hot on the heels of the publication of his most famous book, "Our Lady of Flowers." It is inspired by the famous 1933 French murder trial of Christine and Lea Papin, two sisters employed as maids, who gruesomely killed their employer and her adult daughter. In THE MAIDS two sisters role-play while the lady of the house is away, ritualistically acting out fantasies of both love and revenge. As the games intensify, the incipient violence escalates as they await Madame's return from a romantic rendezvous.
Genet's potent poetic psychodrama explores power, dominance and submission, class struggles, and the various ways we role-play and create illusions in our daily lives. THE MAIDS is a highly and self-consciously theatrical play that builds a palpable level of suspense and mystery as it goes. Audiences will be kept wrapt and trying to guess what will happen next until the lights go to black.
A highly and self-consciously theatrical play, Jobsite's production of THE MAIDS is directed by Producing Artistic Director David M. Jenkins (Lebensraum, SILENCE! The Musical) and stars Georgia Mallory Guy (seen locally in productions like The Divine Sister at Stageworks and freeFall's Bernarda Alba) as Solange,
Katrina Stevenson (American Stage's Intimate Apparel,Lebensraum at Jobsite) as Claire, and
Roxanne Fay (Jobsite's Twelfth Night, freeFall's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) as Madame.
THE MAIDS opens on Fri., April 29, and runs through May 22, 2016. All tickets are priced at $28. If seats are available, rush tickets for students, persons 65+, military/veterans and their dependents, and Theatre Tampa Bay members are $14 as of 30 minutes to curtain with cash and ID at the Straz Box Office window. Special preview performances will be held on April 27-28 at 8p with all tickets priced at $14.
Photo Credit: Pritchard Photography
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