Review Round Up: The Maids, Donmar Warehouse

Review Round Up: The Maids, Donmar Warehouse

We take a look at how critics have been reacting to Kip Williams’s take on  Jean Genet’s play… (c)Marc Brenner Broadway World: **** “Williams’ The Maids runs for one hour and forty-five minutes with no interval. It’s so fast-paced it doesn’t flag. However, at times I wish the action slowed down once in a while to let the audience breathe and reflect. But this quibble doesn’t dent what’s a hugely strong play with a moving denouement where no one …

‘The Maids’ review – Kip Williams directs a meaningless multimedia murder plot

The director behind the award-winning, Sarah Snook-fronted The Picture of Dorian Gray stages his version of Jean Genet’s play at the Donmar Warehouse.

The Maids - Donmar Warehouse, London

Writer: Jean Genet Adaptor and Director: Kip Williams “Everybody ought to have a maid”, asserted Stephen Sondheim famously in song, but the great lyricist could well have had second thoughts after seeing French writer Jean Genet’s 1947 play The Maids, which is revived here. The tale of two mischievous, murderous chambermaids was originally seen as [...] The post The Maids – Donmar Warehouse, London appeared first on The Reviews Hub.