Death and the Maiden
Written by Ariel Dorfman
Narrated by John Mahoney and Full Cast
4.5/5
()
About this audiobook
Carl Gustav Jung
Suspense mounts when Paulina and her husband offer hospitality to a stranger. Paulina thinks she recognizes, in their guest, the man who tortured her in prison, and she subsequently takes him hostage to find out the truth. A stunningly blunt and compelling play, Death and the Maiden explores brilliantly the issues of torture, power, vulnerability, ethics, and trust. An award-winning play by Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman, forced into exile in 1973.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring John Kapelos, John Mahoney, Carolyn Seymour and Kristoffer Tabori.
Ariel Dorfman
Born in 1942 in Argentina, ARIEL DORFMAN as a young academic and writer served as a cultural adviser to President Salvador Allende from 1970 to 1973. During this time he became know more broadly as co-author of How to Read Donald Duck (1971) from which he includes snippets in the Tarzan chapter of Hard Rain, his first novel (1973). Hard Rain won a literary prize in Argentina that allowed him and his family to leave Chile after the Pinochet coup. In exile, Dorfman has become famous as a prolific writer and fierce critic of Pinochet and other despots. He defines himself as an Argentine-Chilean-American novelist (Hard Rain, The Last Song of Manuel Sendero, Mascara) , playwright (Death and the Maiden, Widows, Reader), essayist (The Empire's Old Clothes, Someone Writes to the Future, Heading South, Looking North), academic, and human rights activist.
Related to Death and the Maiden
Related audiobooks
The Autumn Garden Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An Enemy of the People Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The House of Blue Leaves Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5God of Carnage Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Doll House Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Devil's Disciple Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Buried Child Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ruby Sunrise Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Seagull Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Master Builder Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Price Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Arcadia Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Man Who Had All the Luck Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hedda Gabler Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5After the Fall Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ghosts Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Molly Sweeney Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Broken Glass Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Incident At Vichy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Desire Under the Elms Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Major Barbara Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Little Foxes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Reasons to be Pretty Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rivals Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Woman of No Importance Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Uncle Vanya Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Prelude to a Kiss Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All My Sons Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hole in the Top of the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Performing Arts For You
Swingtime for Hitler: Goebbels’s Jazzmen, Tokyo Rose, and Propaganda That Carries a Tune Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Birth of The Endless Summer: A Surf Odyssey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Here We Go Again: My Life In Television Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Create: Tools from Seriously Talented People to Unleash Your Creative Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Grapes of Wrath Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hamlet: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5NPR Funniest Driveway Moments: Radio Stories That Won't Let You Go Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Midsummer Night's Dream: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Romeo and Juliet: The Fully Dramatized Audio Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bel Canto Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Is this Anything? Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Science of Storytelling Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Othello: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Way I Heard It Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Macbeth: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dracula (dramatic reading) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Frankenstein (dramatic reading) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Death of a Salesman Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Julius Caesar: A Fully-Dramatized Audio Production From Folger Theatre Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Jim Gaffigan: Quality Time Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Save the Cat! Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Picture of Dorian Gray (dramatic reading) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Life in Parts Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for Death and the Maiden
15 ratings0 reviews