Le Balcon
by Jean Genet
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The setting of Jean Genet's celebrated play is a brothel that caters to refined sensibilities and peculiar tastes. Here men from all walks of life don the garb of their fantasies and act them out: a man from the gas company wears the robe and mitre of a bishop; another customer becomes a flagellant judge, and still another a victorious general, while a bank clerk defiles the Virgin mary. These costumed diversions take place while outside a revolution rages which has isolated the brothel from the rest of the rebel-controlled city. In a stunning series of macabre, climactic scenes, Genet presents his caustic view of man and society.
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Intellectual life, Continental european drama (dramatic works by one author), Drama, False personation, Revolutions, Brothels, Power (Philosophy), Prostitution, Drama (dramatic works by one author), French drama, Translations into English, Balcony gardening, Bibliography, Roof gardeningTimes
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The Balcony
October 7, 1982, Routledge
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in French
- New Ed edition
0423509802 9780423509809
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Le Balcon (Panorama du Theatre Nouveau, Le Theatre De La Cruaute Vol. 2)
1967-01-01, Appleton-Century-Crofts
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The balcony
1966, Grove Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
in English and French
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0394172140 9780394172149
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"On the ceiling, a chandelier, which will remain the same in each scene."
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