The Screens Author:Jean Genet The play is translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman. — The setting of the play is ostensibly the Algerian War - a subject so explosive in France that despite the acclaim received at publication, no French producer has dared stage it - and on the surface "The Screens" is certainly a political play, but only as Moby Dick is a sea ... more »adventure. Its cast of over fifty characters moves through seventeen scenes, bursting from the world of the living into the world of the dead by means of the changing, sometimes transparent, screens which are the play's only scenery.« less