Lord Leebrick tackles a strange and difficult play about crime

0 Comments | Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), November, 2002

Byline: FRED CRAFTS The Register-Guard

A classic of French absurdist theater, a feel-good musical, an adaptation of Homer's tales and the latest program of student-created comedy sketches open this week on local stages.

Lord Leebrick Theater: `The Maids'

The way French playwright Jean Genet presented the true-life case of two young maids who got their jollies by killing their employer seems extraordinarily rich to director Julie Akers.

An associate professor of theater at Willamette University, the Portland-based director has taken on one of the most celebrated plays in theater history - no easy task.

`The show begins with what looks like a maid and a madame having this very bizarre interaction; then at some moment they stop and...

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