The complexity of 'The Maids' lands at APT in splendid fashion

By Dave Begel, Milwaukee Theater Reviews & News

July 2, 2017

When a play is in need of rescue, there is only one way to do it, and director Ana Cristina (Gigi) Buffington accomplishes the feat thanks to a ferocious trio of actors who pull a complicated play into the world of emotional plunder.

“The Maids” by Jean Genet is a complex exercise in a constantly distorted reality. It’s hard to follow, much less, understand what’s happening on the Touchstone Stage at American Players Theatre.

But three actors, Andrea San Miguel, Melissa Pereyra and Rebecca Hurd deliver such exquisite and gripping performances that the pathway to comprehension is paved with diamonds and gold.

Genet, a Frenchman who was a colleague of Jean Paul Sartre, Pablo Picasso and playwright Jean Cocteau, was a passionate disruptor and “The Maids” is an incognito ode on the horrors of a society torn by class discord.

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