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The Maids

START: Madame … At last! Madame is dead!...

Solange

The Maids
Jean Genet

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Show
The Maids
Character
Solange
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act 1
Time & Place
Evening, Madame's bedroom
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Mature Audiences (M)

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START: Madame … At last! Madame is dead! ...laid out on the linoleum … strangled by the dish-gloves. What? Oh, Madame may remain seated … Madame may call me Mademoiselle Solange … Exactly. It’s because of what I’ve done.
[... …]
END: No, no she must not forget my devotion … And in spite of my forbidding it, Madame continues to stroll about the apartment. She will please sit down … and listen to me … [To Claire] Claire … we’re raving!

Jean Genet. The Maids and Deathwatch: Two Plays by Jean Genet. Grove Press: 1962. p.91-5

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