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Purgatorio

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  1w, 1m

Ariel Dorfman

Purgatorio
by Ariel Dorfman

"Perhaps no ancient tale has inspired more debate or provoked more horror. Through Dorfman's evocative language and keen understanding of humanity, we see the story anew through his crystalline lens. The play is a charged, poetic inquiry into human r…

Purgatorio

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    Cast Size
    1w, 1m

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Summary
A man and a woman enter a room. We see only a small bed, two chairs, and a table. Is it an asylum? A prison? Interrogation room? Questions are asked and answered. We feel we know the story. In this room, both the man and woman are faced with the truths of their lives. Playwright Ariel Dorfman puts before us the question of justice and forgiveness. Are there crimes for which there can be no forgiveness? If there is no forgiveness, how do we move on with our lives? Purgatorio reacquaints us with the tragedy of Jason and Medea.
  • Setting A white room

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"Dorfman's play is fascinating, brilliant, elegant, funny and ... revolting ... He endows [his woman protagonist] with poetry worthy of Euripides." - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Ariel Dorfman

Ariel Dorfman
Ariel Dorfman, the Chilean-American author of numerous works of fiction, plays, poems, screenplays and essays in both Spanish and English, holds the Walter Hines Page chair at Duke University. His books have been translated into over forty languages and his plays staged in mo ...
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