The production will run at the Brooklyn based theatre from the 17th May until the 14th June.
It has been announced that St. Ann’s Warehouse’s 2025-26 season will culminate with the Donmar Warehouse’s acclaimed production of The Maids, Jean Genet’s masterpiece of class struggle and blurred identity, in a new version written and directed by Kip Williams.
With their mistress away, two maids act out their darkest fantasies about Madame, their abusive “influencer” employer. They obsessively role play all day long, to the point of “murdering” her, until performance and reality begin to blur. Williams’ contemporary take is a timely parable about modern identity and the destructive desire to both emulate and annihilate those we idolize.
The production is set to star Phia Saban (House of the Dragon) and Olivier Award nominee Lydia Wilson are the maids, Solange and Claire; and Bridgerton breakout star Yerin Ha is Madame, their mistress.
This revival of the play features video design by Zakk Hein and scenic design by Rosanna Vize.
St. Ann’s Artistic Director Susan Feldman said, “What most attracted me was the outsized scale of the imagery to which these poor girls aspired, available to them (or anyone for that matter) at the touch of their fingertips on their pocket phones 24/7. With a click their deepest hopes burst into fleeting reality with unforgettable size and power, creating false memories and broken dreams one after the other, consuming them with what they could never attain in real life. It’s a modern tragedy pushed to the nth degree.”
Meanwhile, Tim Sheader, Artistic Director, and Henny Finch, Executive Director, of the Donmar said, “Kip Williams’ innovative production of The Maids took audiences in London on a wild ride with its exhilarating script, thrilling technology, and searing social commentary. We are very proud of our longstanding relationship with St. Ann’s Warehouse and are delighted that New York audiences are now going to have the chance to see Yerin Ha, Phia Saban, and Lydia Wilson in this powerful and timely new version of Genet’s classic work.”
For St. Ann’s Warehouse, The Maids continues a decade-long relationship with the Donmar Warehouse that began with Phyllida Lloyd’s all-female Shakespeare Trilogy, a celebrated seven-year series of productions. Then, last season, Benedict Andrews’ in-the-round staging of The Cherry Orchard took New York by storm, with electrifying performances by Nina Hoss and Adeel Akhtar.
To book tickets visit: https://stannswarehouse.org/show/the-maids/