Parlez-vous Genet? Two international stars have lost the plot. One of them, Cate Blanchett, has her head jammed into the bidet (it’s far too posh a production to have been a toilet pedestal); the other, Isabelle Huppert, is holding her down and doing the flushing. It’s a bit of Genet that Jean Genet never wrote in the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of The Maids. Benedict Andrews and Andrew Upton hacked out the new bidet-plus translation. At this point in their play the stars have wandered into an offstage bathroom built at the back of the set. A bidet-trained video camera…