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Theatre students present The Maids

by Pat Anfinson
March 7, 2007

March 7 - March 10, Speech-Theatre Building, Haugen Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

The Maids was written in the late 1940s by Jean Genet who specialized in writing about the victims of bourgeois society such as orphans, homosexuals, and the poor. The play was based on the infamous Papin case (1933) in which two French sisters brutally attacked their mistress and her daughter. Genet writes of two disgruntled sisters working as housemaids for a seemingly sinister mistress. Through role-playing, the sisters take turns enacting their revenge on their mistress. Unaware of the power and danger of their imagination, the sisters are soon incapable of distinguishing reality from illusion.

General admission tickets are available through the Theatre Box Office, $8. Call 507-786-8987.

Contact Pat Anfinson at 507-786-3032 or panfin@stolaf.edu.