About the Book Explicitly political, The Screens is set within the context of the Algerian War. The plays cast of over fifty characters moves through seventeen scenes, the world of the living breaching the world of the dead by means of shifting the screens--the only scenery--in a brilliant tour de force of spectacle and drama. Book Synopsis Explicitly political, The Screens is set within the context of the Algerian War. The plays cast of over fifty characters moves through seventeen scenes, the world of the living breaching the world of the dead by means of shifting the screens--the only scenery--in a brilliant tour de force of spectacle and drama.