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Beauty, an erotic odyssey through the life of Jean Genet
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Written by: Steven Patterson
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2/24/2012 - 3/17/2012
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Drama
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Regional Premiere
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At The Hatchery's GARRET THEATER above New Orleans Shaolin-Do [rear entrance], 4210 St Claude. Enter on the France Avenue side.
Friday Feb 24-Saturday March 17. Fridays & Saturdays, 8pm. $10. Sunday March 4 and 11 at 5pm, $10 or by donation. Monday March 12 at 9pm, industry night. $10 or by donation. For information and reservations, call 504.948.4167
Confined to his cell, a solitary prisoner creates an imaginary world of erotic and spiritual fulfillment for himself. STEVEN PATTERSON's acclaimed solo show invokes the prison writings of Jean Genet in a full-frontal assault. A hypnotic, disturbing waking dream of a show ...Read More
At The Hatchery's GARRET THEATER above New Orleans Shaolin-Do [rear entrance], 4210 St Claude. Enter on the France Avenue side.
Friday Feb 24-Saturday March 17. Fridays & Saturdays, 8pm. $10. Sunday March 4 and 11 at 5pm, $10 or by donation. Monday March 12 at 9pm, industry night. $10 or by donation. For information and reservations, call 504.948.4167
Confined to his cell, a solitary prisoner creates an imaginary world of erotic and spiritual fulfillment for himself. STEVEN PATTERSON's acclaimed solo show invokes the prison writings of Jean Genet in a full-frontal assault. A hypnotic, disturbing waking dream of a show with the stink and sensuality of a seedy backroom - brutal, raw, and transcendent.
"Beauty has no other origin than the deep wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which every man carries within himself, which he preserves, and into which he withdraws when he want's to escape the world for a fleeting but profound solitude." Genet, The Studio of Alberto Giacometti "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness."
The show: http://www.kaliyuga.com/BeautyPg.htm The producer: http://www.facebook.com/cloveproductions
ABOUT BEAUTY, by Steven Patterson: Beauty was inspired by themes and images that recur throughout the early works of Jean Genet, among them the novels Our Lady of the Flowers, Miracle of the Rose, The Thief's Journal, and Querelle; the poems The Fisherman of Suquet and The Man Condemned to Death; and the 1950 silent film Un Chant D'Amour. Drawing on the autobiographical elements of these works, the play utilizes direct audience address, re-enactments of prison routine, and a series of fantasy sequences involving encounters with real and imagined lovers to create a sort of spiritual biography of Genet's prison years. The play is not an adaptation of Genet's works, which in a very real sense are inseparable from the form in which they were originally conceived. It is, instead, a sort of Genet Primer - a distillation of his concerns and obsessions and an examination of the circumstances which shaped his artistic sensibility. We hope this piece will inspire audiences to read (or re-read) Genet's originals and to experience them for themselves. And, by providing an emotional "touchstone" (what actors call "subtext") to serve as a guide amidst the density and stylistic complexities his works contain, we hope the play will give audiences a greater appreciation of the terrible beauty which he was able to wrest from the horrifying circumstances of his life. It's a powerful story of the triumph of art and the imagination over the forces of repression and degradation.
JEAN GENET was born in Paris in 1910, the illegitimate son of a prostitute. Abandoned by his mother, he spent his childhood as a ward of the state in a series of foster homes throughout rural France. A sensitive child and a good student, he also became a chronic runaway, acutely aware of his status as an outsider. He was eventually sent to the notorious boy's prison at Mettray where he blossomed under the spell of the harsh all-male environment and his first homosexual experiences. During the 1930s, after deserting the army he had joined in order to be released from prison, he bummed around Europe, always on the run from both the military and the police. In 1942, he emerged from one of several stays in prison with the manuscript of his first novel, Our Lady of the Flowers. It was admired by Jean Cocteau, who arranged to have it published and interceded with the French authorities to keep its author out of prison. Cocteau thrust Genet into the heart of literary Paris, where he enjoyed a curious celebrity as a great writer, petty criminal, and unapologetic homosexual, was painted by Alberto Giacometti (from whom he stole sketches), and canonized by Jean-Paul Sartre in the monumental study Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr. In the mid-1950s Genet turned his attention to the theatre and created the masterworks for which he is perhaps best known: The Maids, The Balcony, The Blacks, and The Screens. Although extremely ambivalent about political movements, he was a vocal supporter of the Paris student uprising and entered the U.S. illegally to cover the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago for Esquire Magazine. In 1970, he became a spokesman for the Black Panther Party and, during the final decade of his life, championed the struggle for a Palestinian homeland. Genet died in Paris in 1986 and was burried in Morocco, where his grave overlooks an old Spanish prison and bordello.
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