"What we need is hatred.  From it our ideas are born." - Jean Genet   The Maids By: Jean Genet Translated by: Bernard Frechtman Directed by: Ulla Wolcz November 24 @ 8 PM galapagos art space 16 Main St. DUMBO, NY Two sisters play a murderous role-playing game when their employer is not about.  Blurring the line between fact and fantasy until it risks disintegrating, Solange and Claire rage against their Madame, Monsieur, and society at large.  In a world in which Facebook defines public images of our private lives, The Maids' insight into the illusive nature of identity is as penetrating as the day it premiered.  Written by Genet in 1947, the play is loosely based on a true 1930s murder.   Directed by famed Romanian-German actress Ulla Wolcz.

The new Galapagos Art Space inaugurates its theatrical season!!! Following a hit run in San Diego and Berlin and Mainz, Germany, NU Classic’s stunning production finally arrives to New York to be one of the first acts to inagurate the brand new LEED-certified environmentally 'green’ galapagos art space in DUMBO. Galapagos was founded on the principal that “good artists and the best young thinkers follow ideas, and ideas flourish when there is opportunity to realize them.”  It offers space and generates audiences to counteract the astronomical costs of living and producing work in New York. Don’t miss this gripping examination into the illusive nature of identity.    The San Diego Union Tribune calls Wolcz's, production “SPELLBINDING...A FINELY DETAILED GLIMPSE OF HELL."

“on the verge of insanity.” - Peter Rado  “catches you in a stranglehold that won’t let you move or breathe…” - NPR-KPBS FM “precise in style and multifaceted in tone it becomes a polished little gem…” - San Diego Union Tribune   Featuring NU Classic's: Laura Butler Kelly Eubanks Rebecca Henderson Scenic Design: Ulla Wolcz Sound Designer: Niky Wolcz Graphic Design: David Skeist Lighting Design: Daniel Irizarry Electrician: Pete Producer: Galapagos/NU Classic/Isaac Woofter Public Relations: Lindsay Saunders In co-production with galapagos art space, NU Classic brings a feverish and hallucinatory classic from the avante guarde. Click Here to Purchase Tickets This production is made possible by galapagos art space.