Event

DEATHWATCH

ABOUT DEATHWATCH
Informed by his own experience in French prisons, Jean Genets first play, "Deathwatch," is an explosive exploration of the inversion of moral order. Essentially a dream, the play is a dramatization of impersonation. Three young convicts share a cell. Locked into a world of dangerous rivalries, criminals Lefranc and Maurice compete for the attention of the charismatic condemned man, Green-Eyes.

ABOUT GENET AND LUCIANI'S ABSOLUTE THEATER
For Genet, the stage offered the most effective literary form for the incantatory expression of dream and ritual. Divinity can be reached both through spirituality and sexuality, which for Genet are not only the same but also the starting point for everything else, and the point to which all returns. His plays are sacred dramas during the course of which the deepest parts of man are moved communally through the common sharing of the theatrical ceremony. Genets work is concerned with a search for the Absolute - whether for an Absolute Good or an Absolute Evil is, in the long run, essentially indifferent, and indeed, in those ultimate domains of thought, beyond time and space, to which he eventually leads us, the one becomes indistinguishable from the other. Genet is fundamentally interested in metamorphosis, or the development of the individual in society, his/her transcendence or rite of passage from on mode of living to another. These and many others shared beliefs make Genets Deathwatch the perfect totemic conduit for this, the first non-devised production from Lucianis Absolute Theater.

Directed by Guido Luciani
Written by Jean Genet
Cast:
Lukas Sarnow as Maurice
Spenser Morris as Green Eyes
Toby Clark as Lefranc