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SHOCKING: Jean genet - What They Never Told You

The Maids review – Dorian Gray’s Kip Williams dazzles again with feverish fantasy

There are superb performances in this screen-saturated staging of Jean Genet’s 1947 play, updated for the influencer age

The Guardian - UK

The Maids at Donmar Warehouse: 'If you're prepared to surrender, it's a wild ride'

4/5 This adaptation of Jean Genet’s play by Kip Williams makes use of phones to project the fantasy world of two sisters wishing to murder a terrible mistress but the true power is in the performances

Evening Standard

Where to start with: Edmund White

After the news of White’s death, here is a guide to a foundational writer of gay lives and elder statesman of American queer literary fiction

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The Maids review – Jean Genet’s chilling game of master and servant

Annie Kershaw’s subtle and artful production helps blur the line between fantasy and reality, with a magnificent cast enacting their enraged power battles

The Guardian - UK

The Maids at Jermyn Street Theatre review: this meditation on inequality and reality is an angry shout of a play

3/5 There’s life and humanity in Jean Genet’s depiction of two murderous servants – even if it does veer towards farce and caricature

Evening Standard

Marc Camille Chaimowicz obituary

Artist whose installations combined the melancholic and camp, the romantic and cerebral

The Guardian - UK

Peter Eötvös obituary

Hungarian conductor of modernist music who went on to compose operas with texts ranging from Three Sisters to Angels in America

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Evoking genius to defend ‘dark stars’ like Gérard Depardieu looks very French – and it is

Accusations of rape against the actor have divided the nation, with some referring to him as the ‘last monstre sacré’

The Guardian - UK

The Turner Prize 2023: Meet the new 'Darling' of the art world

British artist and this year’s Turner Prize winner Jesse Darling talks about his prize-winning work which has been described as "delirious" and "juggling" with themes of Brexit, nationality, identity, bureaucracy, immigration and austerity. Humorous and bold, it's made up of net curtains, crowd control barriers, washing lines, bunting and ring…

France 24

Where I Slept by Libby Angel review – Melbourne’s 1990s bohemia comes to gritty life

A descendant of Helen Garner’s Monkey Grip, this biographical second novel is set among the share houses and squats of a young artistic life

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