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The Maids

The Maids

By Jean Genet

Translated by
Bernard Frechtman
Directed by Gigi Buffington
Touchstone

Run time: 1 hour 35 minutes. This play will be performed without an intermission.

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Corrupted Identity

When the line between who you are and who you can never be is stretched thin, reality becomes a story you write yourself. It’s not a pretty story, though there is beauty. Not a story that’s sexy, though there is sex. It is a world most of us glide past without seeing. A world defined by Class and by Other, whose inhabitants are shoved, howling, into a gilded prison. Never to be released. It’s mesmerizing and provocative. Even terrifying, at times. What, after all, is scarier than love? Especially love like this – marble-cold and star-distant. And for these three women, it's the only love they'll ever know. Take a chance, and peer into their fractured looking glass.

Featuring: Rebecca Hurd, Melisa Pereyra & Andrea San Miguel

June - September, 2017

Synopsis

Claire and Solange are sisters and servants. Trapped in a life they didn’t ask for and can’t leave, they pass the time by impersonating their Madame, with Claire dressing up in her fine clothes and makeup and relishing her role as the cruel, bullying mistress; using her character to spar with Solange. As the sisters dig deeper into their make-believe, their games become more sinister as they struggle against and within their identities and class roles. An edgy, absurdist fantasy about class and pain; power and playacting. 

Cast

Solange
Andrea San Miguel
Claire
Melisa Pereyra *
Madame
Rebecca Hurd

Staff

Voice & Text Coach
Eva Breneman
Costume Design
Devon Painter †
Scenic Design
Yu Shibagaki †
Lighting Design
Jaymi Lee Smith †
Sound Design & Original Music
Victoria Deiorio †
Fight Director
Brian Byrnes
Stage Manager
Carrie Taylor *
* Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers
** Member of Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, an Independent Labor Union
† Member of United Scenic Artists

'Pericles, Prince of Tyre' and 'The Maids' reviews: from fun to frightening
By Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal, September 7, 2017

Brutal backlash
By Gwendolyn Rice, The Isthmus, July 27, 2017

Indoors at APT Genet's 'The Maids' glitters like shattered glass
By Lindsay Christians, The Capital Times, July 15, 2017

Three American Players Theatre shows explore the ways of the French this summer
By Paul Kosidowski, Milwaukee Magazine, July 7, 2017

The complexity of 'The Maids' lands at APT in splendid fashion
By Dave Begel, Milwaukee Theater Reviews & News, July 2, 2017

American Players Theatre reflects humiliation of immigrants in 'The Maids'
By Mike Fischer, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 5, 2017

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