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No play casts a longer shadow across international theatre. --New York Times
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Years have passed since political prisoner Paulina suffered at the hands of her captor: a man whose face she never saw, but can still recall with terrifying clarity. Tonight, by chance, a stranger arrives at the secluded beach house she shares with her husband Gerardo, a human rights lawyer. A stranger Paulina is convinced was her tormentor and must now be held to account...
Death and the Maiden is one of the most successful and highly acclaimed works of twentieth-century drama. A profoundly moving indictment of the torture carried out by regimes and dictators, such as Chile's General Pinochet, it has become a modern classic studied both for the power of its message and the deceptively simple skill of the playwright in putting that message across. One of the most important and deeply humane plays of our time.
Death and the Maiden is one of the most successful and highly acclaimed works of twentieth-century drama. A profoundly moving indictment of the torture carried out by regimes and dictators, such as Chile's General Pinochet, it has become a modern classic studied both for the power of its message and the deceptively simple skill of the playwright in putting that message across. One of the most important and deeply humane plays of our time.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Death and the Maiden is one of those plays that become instant classics. It is almost like a Greek tragedy in that it deals with so much with so little effort- torture, rape,revenge, guilt, truth. It is a play that is un-cluttered with stage directions, which, if one has a good imagination, leaves room for your mind to explore the world that Dorfman creates and allows you to imagine what the characters are doing... It only has 3 characters which really makes it interesting- Dorfman keeps the tension and the drama going for the whole play while he has only these 3 characters to write about. This play hits home hard, because whether you've been raped, tortured or not, Dorfman has created characters that have elements of us all- you'll recognise yourself in at least one aspect of one character... This is a play that asks you for answers- so it is using you as an instrument in its own "life" as an interesting aspect of theatre. One for the imaginative.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
what a fabulous play. It is so deep and it gives such an accurate portrayl of a woman undertaking the final stages of recovery from an incident that has scarred her for life. It is everyones wish to meet their tormenter from when they were young - this book describes the sinister triumph of a woman settling the score. I loved acting it.
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