The Screens
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The Screens (French: Les Paravents) is a 1961 play by the French dramatist Jean Genet. The play's controversial theme of French colonialism, at a time of unrest in French colonial Algeria, caused riots when the work was first staged in Paris in 1966. The work is presented in a stylised, non-narrative form of short individual episodes, linked by the character Saïd, an outcast from society who betrays the rebels.
The play's first few productions all used abridged versions, beginning with its world premiere under Hans Lietzau's direction in Berlin in May 1961. Its first complete performance was staged in Stockholm in 1964, two years before Roger Blin directed its French premiere in Paris.
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