THE REBELLION AND THE THEATRICAL REALITY IN THE PLAY “SCREENS” BY JEAN GENET

Abstract

The characteristic features of Genet’s dramaturgy – ritual game, the combination of the real and the unreal, which corresponds to Genet’s pursuit of presenting illusion as reality, make an indivisible whole in the plays “The Balcony” and “The Screens”, written almost at the same time. These plays reject the idea of making reforms through revolutions. According to Genet the revolution must take place in people’s consciousness through enlightenment. The playwright’s further dialogue is devoted to the philosophical cognition of the good and the evil.