Jermyn Street theatre, London
Annie Kershaw’s subtle and artful production helps blur the line between fantasy and reality, with a magnificent cast enacting their enraged power battles

A haughty mistress taunts the maid who is helping her dress – deriding her looks, her smell, her lowly life. “Get out. Take your gobs of spit with you,” she says, with dark glee.

So begins Jean Genet’s absurdist drama about two role-playing sisters who act out the master-servant relationship like an elaborate game of Dom/sub make-believe pushed to the extreme.