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Death and the Maiden
Death and the Maiden: A Play in Three Acts | Ariel Dorfman
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A woman seeks revenge when the man she believes to have been her torturer happens to re-enter her life. Ariel Dorfman's play premiered at the Royal Court in 1991, and is now recognised as a modern classic. This 20th-anniversary edition (…more)
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The play was written in the 1990s when Chile was in a phase of transition from dictatorship to democracy.It is set in a house where a woman lives with her husband.Earlier his car broke down and a stranger gave him a lift.The stranger appears at their door in the middle of the night and she recognises in him her torturer and rapist.Her husband is a lawyer on the commission to investigate the crimes committed during the dictatorship.Brilliant