The Screens - Faber Hardback, 1963. This item is unavailable.The Screens - Faber Hardback, 1963

First hardback Faber edition, 1963. Good condition. Name and date on ffep, small annotation to page 83, light stain to bottom edge of text block which is not effected internally. Dust jacket has light wear to edges. The Screens is the last of Genet's plays to be performed during his lifetime. Its subject is the Algerian War of Independence, and it is an intricately crafted, grandiose construction - beguiling and baffling in equal measure. While the most openly political of Genet's plays, the work is not revolutionary in intent. Rather, as the play progresses the radical direction of lighting and the use of folding canvases serve to segment and compartmentalise the drama, and in so doing t.