Jean Genet was born in Paris in 1910 and passed away in 1985. His life was full of adventure.

He was raised in government boarding schools. He committed many misdemeanors and crimes as an adult such as smuggling and spent some time in prison, but since he was a highly talented writer, he was released through the intercession of Jean Paul Sartre, Jean Cocteau and Andre Gide.

Genet believed that man is an animal which finds the strange and awkward pictures of himself in the heart of a mirror and tries to save himself with a mixture of ignorance and tension.

He tries to find a solution by creating relations with others, but the glassy walls on which his obscure and scratched picture has been engraved have blocked his way to communicating with people.

'The Maids' was written in 1947. It is actually based on role-playing.

Solange and Claire are two maids who are sisters.

With actions and movements which look ritualistic, they act out the different and contrasting roles of the mistress.

The director of the play, Ali Rafi'ei, has changed Genet's deep and effective work, which is a strange combination of love and hatred in man, into a story of a melancholy relationship.

Of course, Rafi'ei's view needs to be analyzed.

Has he added something to Genet's idea or given a new outlook to the play? It is very difficult to stage Genet's plays. But it should be mentioned that few people have been able to accurately depict the nature of thought mingled with anxiety and the fact that spiritual people are in dire need of solidarity, a fact which is quite clear in Rafi'ei's work.