[Photo from The Balcony] The Balcony
Jean Genet
December 1988
UMBC Theatre, Baltimore, Maryland
"Genet's The Balcony is given no-holds-barred treatment. Xerxes Mehta directs flamboyantly, with great style. Salkind is a stiletto of talent, slithering into sensual slime herself at one point, as the queen bee of a whorehouse which indulges the fantasies of Paris' elite....Sam McCready is exquisite--illuminating and tricky--as a blaspheming bishop, all tarted up for teasing....Romanian costume designer Elena Zlotescu...should have a museum built in her honor....This profane show is exotically, furiously and brilliantly realized."
--The Daily Record [Baltimore]

Return to the Maryland Stage Company home page.