The Blacks

"Genet has strong claims to be considered the greatest living playwright. His plays constitute a body of work unmatched for poetic and theatrical power which reaches, in at least two of the plays The Balcony and The Blacks a pitch of inspiration and mastery."

"In form, it flows as freely as an improvisation, with fantasy, allegory and intimations of reality mingled into a weird, stirring unity. . . Genet's investigation of the color black begins where most plays of this burning theme leave off. . . This vastly gifted Frenchman uses shocking words and images to cry out at the pretensions and injustices of our world. . . One of the most original and stim