He tells the duke, Solinus, his sad tale: years earlier he and his wife had been shipwrecked with their infant sons, identical twins, and a pair of infant servants, also identical twins.
The other trial involved accusations on a much smaller scale — behind the walls of a private home on Long Island, where a pair of domestic servants from Indonesia say they were treated as slaves and subjected to horrific punishments by the wealthy couple who employed them.
The Jean Genet play, about a pair of house servants with murderous designs on their employer, will be directed by Benedict Andrews, who previously directed Ms. Blanchett in "Gross und Klein (Big and Small)" and "The War of the Roses" for Sydney Theater Company.
Grand style is in fact the order of the day, with Jacob Ming Trent and Liam Craig as a pair of superbly synchronized servants, Julie Briskman as the requisite saucy maid and Justine Williams as the egregious Martine, wielding her stuffed shirt with obvious relish.
Or, if your posse prefers "The Simpsons" to Schopenhauer, try a pair of B ssine plastic servant-girl earrings, invariably available on ebay.com.com
As played by Ms. Richardson, Ms. Castle is a canny, middle-aged firebrand in the Labour cabinet who does her sharp-tongued best to keep a flame going under her assistants, a pair of prematurely stodgy civil servants.
In the opening of the play Aegon tells of how his twin sons were separated as children, along with another pair of twins who were to be their servants.
They would have been the instruments of servants.
Then there is the vexed question of servants.
Hundreds of servants and staff are expected to work inside.
