Jean Genet's The Balcony, which premiered in 1957, has come to
be recognised as one of the founding plays of modern theatre, and
is what the philosopher Lucien Goldmann has called 'the first great
Brechtian play in French literature'.
In a brothel of an unnamed French city the madam, Irma, directs
a series of fantastical scenarios - a bishop forgives a penitent, a
judge punishes a thief, a general rides astride his horse. Outside,
an uprising threatens to engulf the streets. The patrons of the
brothel wait anxiously for the chief of police to arrive, but in
his place comes the queen's envoy to inform that the figureheads of
the establishment have been killed in the uprising. Play-acting
turns to reality, as the patrons don their costumes in public in
the attempt to quell the insurrection.
Illusion and reality, order and dissolution - these are the
grand themes of The Balcony, all refracted through the prism of
Genet's sexualised genius.
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