Peerless, fearless Blanchett in 'The Maids'

NEW YORK -- It's kind of wild, if not entirely wonderful, what Cate Blanchett and her co-conspirators achieve in their revival of Jean Genet's louche tragicomedy, "The Maids." With cameras perched behind every mirror on the stage at New York City Center, the antic, mischievous charades of Blanchett and Isabelle Huppert, as sullen sisters in the employ of an imperious mistress, are projected onto a giant screen, the better for us to peer into every pore of their stricken faces.