Had a really good conference with Laurence about my Genet/ absurdism talk. How I think I will do it after talking to him about it:

- Structure it as Genet & The Maids: Absurdism, Existentialism, or Ritual Theatre (the theories of these theatres, and justifications from the maids as to why these might apply)

- Laurence says conflicting views are good, point out how there are multiple views

- Existentialism: life is meaningless until humans make decisions to give it meaning. So are Claire and Solange able to make choice? Is their fate fated? Is Genet existentialist because he is choosing his criminality? But is he really?

- stick to using quotes that centre around Genet and the Maids, before going outside, to avoid playing join the quote

- I might slip in the knife quote by setting up a dorothy dix question.

- Not Catharsis - because catharsis is about getting bad things out of your system, Genet celebrates the bad.

- have to get out that certain TDR article.

- Laurencee is going to see if he has a particular relevent vid, and lend it to me. yay!