The balcony (play)

The balcony, in the French original Le Balcon, is a play by the French playwright Jean Genet published in 1956. It was staged for the first time in 1957 in London under the direction of Peter Brook and has since attracted attention of numerous theatrical directors such as Peter Zadek, Erwin Piscator, Roger Blin, Giorgio Strehler and JoAnne Akalaitis.The Comédie Française did not incorporate this work until 1985. The work seems to have as origin the experiences of Jean Genet in the Chinatown of Barcelona around Jacques Lacan described the work from a psychoanalytic perspective and points out that it is a rebirth of the spirit of the Greek Comedy, especially Aristophanes. It has also been pointed out that the work is the first great French-language theatrical manifestation of the style pioneered by Bertolt Brecht. The play

The balcony is located in a city without a name that suffers the ravages of a revolution. The balcony is the name of a brothel or house of illusions where normal individuals come to realize their fantasies. Among this repertoire of fantasies are those that represent the clergy, the military establishment and, finally, the representative of the laws. Thus a microcosm is created with the representatives of the regime established within the brothel while outside the revolution is extended. On the one hand, the work unfolds, on the one hand, the conflict between the revolution and the counterrevolution, and on the other, more philosophically, the conflict between identity and illusion. great interest in the study of the work. The stage space unfolds; inside the brothel represent the illusions of the characters that are observed by the madame and other personages.

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