Les Bonnes

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Les Bonnes (The Maids) is a play by the French dramatist Jean Genet (1910-1986). It was first performed at the Théâtre de l'Athénée in Paris in a production that opened on 17 April 1947, which Louis Jouvet directed. A film adaptation of the play was released in 1974. Genet loosely based his play on the infamous Papin sisters, Lea and Christine, who brutally murdered their employer and her daughter in Le Mans, France, in 1933. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maids).

Translated into Afrikaans as Diensmeisies by Wim Vorster. In 2008 this translation was performed at KKNK and other festivals.


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