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| Title | The Maids |
| Start Date | 28/05/1963 |
| End Date | 30/05/1963 |
| Abstract | Part of “Theatre of the Absurd” – a season of French Absurdist works presented by the Marlowe Society. |
| Author | Jean Genet |
| Cast Member | Barbara Caffin |
| Cast Member | Lesley Baker |
| Cast Member | Hilary McPhee |
| Director | Paul Eddey |
| Company | Marlowe Society |
| Venue | Union Theatre |
| Reviews | Beatrice Faust, “The Season of the Absurd in Review” in “Theatre” (1963) no.4., p.45: “so compelling”, “an austere no-set of dark grey-purple flats, black furniture, colour saturated costumes, exquisite lighting and well tempered rhetoric”, but “exploring the remarkable beauty of the language leads up one blind alley, for, concentrating on the nobility of the characters in their intense emotional web, the production loses one dimension – comedy”. Also review in Farrago 17/6/63 p.5. |
| References | “Theatre” (1963) no.3.; Louise Thorne Collection, Rowden White Library |
| Notes | Part of the 1963 ‘Theatre of the Absurd’ season (see festival entry). |