By Jean Genet
Play through Jean Genet, produced and released in 1956 as Le Balcon, and translated via Bernard Frechtman. encouraged through the Theater of Cruelty, The Balcony comprises 9 scenes, 8 of that are set contained in the Grand Balcony bordello. The brothel is a repository of phantasm in a modern ecu urban aflame with revolution. After the city's royal palace and rulers are destroyed, the bordello's costumed consumers impersonate the leaders of the town. because the masqueraders hot to their roles, they persuade even the revolutionaries that the semblance created within the bordello is premiere to reality.
“The Balcony is one of the so much wonderful subversive paintings of literature to be created because the writings of the recognized Marquis. an enormous dramatic achievement.” – Robert Brustein, the hot Republic
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B ut I'm thi nking of my d aughter . (She stands-for a bell has buzzed-and goes to a curious piece offurniture at the left, a kind of switchboard with a view-finder and earphone. While talking, she looks into the view-finder, after pushing down a switch) : ,Every time I ask you a slightly intimate questi o n , you shut up li ke a clam, IRMA and you throw your d aughter up t o me. Are you still set on going to see her? Don't be' a fool. Between this place and the nursery in the country there's fire and water, rebellion and bullets.
Very gently) Do you think I'm capable of it? IRMA (in a panting whisper) : Yes, darling. THE CHIEF OF POLICE : All right, add up the accounts for me you like, you can deduct Apollo's crepe de Chine. And hurry up. I've got to get back to my post. For the time . If being, I have to act. Mterwards . . Afterwards, things'll in my place. Well, what about Arthur? IRMA (s ubmissively) : He'll be dead this evening. THE CHIEF OF POLICE : Dead? You mean . . really . . really run themselves. My name wil act dead?
F o r the moment, you've abs o l u te l y got to go to meet G eo rge . . ARTHUR (with insolent irony) : I b e g your pardon, my beloved? IRMA (curtly) : To go to meet Mr. G e o rge . To P o li ce H e ad qua rter s , if nece s s a ry , and to let him know that I ' m relying o nly on IRMA him. (slightly uneasy) : You're kidding, I h ope? . IRMA (with sudden sternness) : The tone of my last remark should a n sw e r your question. I'm no longer playing. Or, if you like, not the same r ole . And there's no l on ger any need for you to play the mean, soft·hearted pimp.