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Deathwatch review " Genet's clammily powerful prison struggle by Michael Billington

Print Room at the Coronet, London Two prisoners and a condemned man vie for dominion of their cell in a well-executed production leavened by fantasy sequencesThis is Jean Genet's first play, newly and expertly translated by David Rudkin and vividly directed by Geraldine Alexander. Set in a prison cell, it makes for a clammily powerful 75 minutes, even if I find something suspect about Genet's elevation of the murdere…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:09PM on April 14, 2016

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