A spatial instrument of duality and ritual, this set embodies entrapment and transcendence. Genet’s Les Bonnes unfolds within a calibrated loop—where matter and memory grind in cycles. The architecture frames constraint as choreography: edge, tether, repetition, form. Structure becomes stage, sensation, and subversion.

This was a stunning production, physically centered around a tall noose-like contraption with a twisted bucket — suggesting buckets of water eternally carried, to which Solange and Claire are tethered, like mules to a grinding stone. The set design, by Lloyd Huber and Di Girolamo, is as imaginative and emotionally signifying as any I’ve ever seen. — Yvonne Korshak, Let’s Talk Off Broadway