i like this picture of the playwright, Jean Genet. i've been thinking about him a lot lately because we just finished casting our next mainstage show, The Maids. it's a great show about two murderous maids who are sisters, slightly crazy and full of loathing for their mistress and for themselves.
Genet himself was a pretty interesting character. it was well-known in his day (the 40's) that he was a homosexual, and that made him both a deviant and an intriguing person. Jean-Paul Sartre was a big fan of his, as well as a friend. Genet was also a bit of a miscreant. he was arrested several times, and in fact, Sartre bailed him out of jail on one occasion. some of Genet's best writing was actually written in his jail cell.
my final thought on all this is that as the french are always more exciting and intelligent, Genet is one of my favorite playwrights. you go, homo.