Maid of Radiance

Yenny lives a triple life. Outside her mansion in Radiance, Illinois, she’s “Virginie Boulanger,” a blond, aspiring beauty queen and eccentric watercolor artist. Indoors, she’s the Latina maid to the real Virginie Boulanger, her zillionaire white boss who cloisters in the master bedroom and grooms Yenny via the mansion’s intercom system to play “Virginie” in public. In private moments, she’s “Jenny Baker,” her liberated white girl self who just wants to drink, screw and paint beastly creatures. Ambition, self-loathing, bad wigs, paint, lust, canned tuna and vengeance send Yenny ping-ponging between her three selves to an ultimate transcendence. Who is the real Yenny? Perhaps only the handyman, Don, knows for sure. Inspired by the farces of Moliere and Ionesco, Maid of Radiance is a modern American farce about the toxicity of “whiteness” and the hoodwink of identity.