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Death and the Maiden (Tie-In)
Death and the Maiden (Tie-In) | Ariel Dorfman
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Ariel Dorfman's explosively provocative, award-winning drama is set in a country that has only recently returned to democracy. Gerardo Escobar has just been chosen to head the commission that will investigate the crimes of the old regime when his car breaks down and he is picked up by the humane doctor Roberto Miranda. But in the voice of this good Samaritan, Gerardo's wife, Paulina Salas, thinks she recognizes another man--the one who raped and tortured her as she lay blindfolded in a military detention center years before.
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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