JEAN GENET: THE BALCONY

The Balcony (1956) is the best known of Jean Genet's (1910-86) dramatic works. A brilliant and provocative play, The Balcony is set in a brothel, or the “house of illusions”, in an undisclosed country. Madame Irma's house of illusions is a place where plumbers, bank clerks and chiefs of police come to act out their sexual fantasies as Judges, bishops, generals, and so on. The most important event in the play is the bloody “Revolution” which has led the critics, theatre persons and the audience to interpret it in several ways and at several levels as The Balcony complicates the reality of this revolution, constantly questioning which is the more real—the sexual fantasies or the revolution. The present critical study seeks to examine and analysis. The Balcony from these—and other angles—so as to make it more accessible to the students in Indian Universities and abroad.

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