ARIEL DORFMAN   (1942 - )


Ariel Dorfman
   Nationality:
Chiliean
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Plays by Ariel Dorfman

ARIEL DORFMAN
Dancing Shadows
1st Produced:
Seoul Center Opera House, Korea
2007
Company:
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1st Published:
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ISBN
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Genre:
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Musical
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
book by Ariel Dorfman; music by Eric Woolfson
Synopsis:
The new piece focused on being a fable dealing with the inner side of human beings rather than focusing on ideological conflicts like the original piece. Since the planning stages, the piece was created with a global audience in mind, so in order to gain as much universal consensus as possible, the background was changed from a village in the skirts of Sobaek Mountain during the Korean War to an imaginary village devastated by war in an unspecified period of time.
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ARIEL DORFMAN
Death And The Maiden
1st Produced:
1991
Company:
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1st Published:
ISBN
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
1st published Penguin Books, New York, 1992
Synopsis:
examines the after effects of repression on hearts and souls of people in country emerging from totalitarian dictatorship
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ARIEL DORFMAN
Mascara
1st Produced:
Bonn Schauspielhaus
1998
Company:
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1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
gothic comedy
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Parts:
Male
5
Female
5
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
written by Ariel and Rodrigo Dorfman. Adapted from Ariel Dorfman's novel Mascara
Synopsis:
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ARIEL DORFMAN
Other Side, The
1st Produced:
New National Theatre in Tokyo, Japan
2004
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1st Published:
ISBN
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
originally commissioned by The National Theatre, Tokyo, 2003/4
Synopsis:
In a country at war for many years, a man and a woman wait. They pass their days confirming the identity of dead bodies at a hut near the border of the two fighting countries. When peace and a border guard arrive, chaos ensues. This moving and strangely comic work raises potent questions about war, identity, and love in our times.
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ARIEL DORFMAN
Picasso's Closet
1st Produced:
Theater J in Washington, D.C
2006
Company:
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1st Published:
Dorfman, Ariel. "The Prey." Storie 52-53 (2004): 12-47. (Act 1 of Picasso's Closet.)
ISBN
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
workshopped at New York Stage and Film's Summer Programme 2002
Synopsis:
a counterfactual history in which the Nazis murder Picasso
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ARIEL DORFMAN
Purgatorio
1st Produced:
2005
Company:
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1st Published:
ISBN
1854596691
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Synopsis:
A Man and a Woman in purgatory - a soul-less white room. Each is interrogated in turn by the other. Each is groping for forgiveness and contrition. But one of them has done something unforgiveable. . .
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ARIEL DORFMAN
Reader
1st Produced:
1995
Company:
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1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 1995
ISBN
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
7
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Synopsis:
A censor banning a novel finds it is a description of his own life predicting that a terrible fate awaits his son.
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ARIEL DORFMAN
Speak Truth To Power
1st Produced:
Kennedy Center, Washington DC
2000
Company:
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1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
based on the book by Kerry Kennedy
Synopsis:
In searing and uplifting interviews, veteran human rights defender Kerry Kennedy examines the quality of courage within women and men who are dramatically changing the course of events in their communities and countries. Imprisoned, tortured, and threatened with death, they speak with eloquence on subjects to which they have devoted their lives and for which they have been willing to sacrifice. The play chronicles the struggles of fifty human rights activists including Vaclav Havel, the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel, and more than 30 individuals who have devoted themselves to human rights, including Kailash Satyarthi, who has freed tens of thousands of victims of child labor in his native India and Juliana Dogbadzi, who liberates African girls bound for sexual slavery.
Press Release
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ARIEL DORFMAN
Who's Who
1st Produced:
Frankfurt Schauspielhaus
1998
Company:
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1st Published:
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ISBN
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
written by Ariel and Rodrigo Dorfman
Synopsis:
The world premiere of Who's Who took place at the Frankfurt Schauspielhaus, on October 18, 1998, directed by Thomas Schulte-Michels. Originally written in English with his son Rodrigo Dorfman, Who's Who is Ariel's Dorfman first theatrical murder mystery farce. The play brings together five characters from the Hollywood dream factory: among them, Samantha Fox, a famous and aging casting agent who refuses to retire and Alex Martinez-Nam, a racially hybrid and fairly embittered actor whose terrorist plot will shake the foundations of Hollywood. The play deals with issues of ethnic representation in movies and authoritarian structures of power everywhere
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ARIEL DORFMAN
Widows
1st Produced:
Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, CA
1991
Company:
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1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 1997
ISBN
-
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
11
Female
13
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Synopsis:
In this smouldering political allegory the men have disappeared from the war-torn village leaving the women to wait.
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