Death and the Maiden |  | | Written by Ariel Dorfman Directed by Brian Blakey | 6 - 13 May 2006 Doors open 6:45pm Performance 7:30pm | | A taught and exciting thriller. | | Set in South America, a couple are trying to return to normality after their experiences in the country's civil war, when one day a car breakdown brings a visitor to the house. The wife is convinced he was one of the solidiers who held her captive during the revolution.
When this powerful political drama and psychological thriller by the noted Chilean writer premiered in London, it won the Time Out Award for Best Play. It focuses on a woman who finds herself in the position to exact revenge upon a man whom she believes to have been her torturer 15 years earlier. The Broadway cast was Glenn Close, Richard Dreyfuss, and Gene Hackman.
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