Purgatory
2006
First Published
3.90
Average Rating
56
Number of Pages
A powerful and poetic play, with echoes of Jean-Paul Sartre's Huis Clos and Euripides' Medea . From the author of Death and the Maiden . 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... Ariel Dorfman's play Purgatorio was first performed at the Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle, USA, in November 2005. (An earlier version was first performed in a rehearsed reading at the Criterion Theatre, London, in November 2001). The play was first staged in the UK at the Arcola Theatre, London, in January 2008.
Avg Rating
3.90
Number of Ratings
58
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Author
Ariel Dorfman
Author · 27 books
Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. A citizen of the United States since 2004, he has been a professor of literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina since 1985.
