ARIEL DORFMAN   


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Plays by Ariel Dorfman

ARIEL DORFMAN
Death And The Maiden
1st Produced:
1991
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
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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
Other Side, The
1st Produced:
2005
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
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Notes: originally commissioned by The National Theatre, Tokyo, 2003/4
Synopsis: This three-hander, featuring a husband and wife together with a mysterious stranger, has much in common with Death and the Maiden, in particular a sense of helpless claustrophobia and questions over identity
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ARIEL DORFMAN
Picasso's Closet
1st Produced:
workshopped at New York Stage and Film's Summer Programme
2002
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ARIEL DORFMAN
Purgatorio
1st Produced:
2005
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1st Published:
2006
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
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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
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
7
Female
4
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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
2001
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Play/Drama
Parts:
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Female
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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.
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ARIEL DORFMAN
Widows
1st Produced:
Los Angeles
1991
Company:
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1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London
1997
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
11
Female
13
Parts Other:
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Notes: written with Tony Kushner
Synopsis: In this smouldering political allegory the men have disappeared from the war-torn village leaving the women to wait.
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