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Purgatorio

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Description for Purgatorio Paperback. The tale of a man and a woman who have entered purgatory - a soul-less white room. Each is interrogated in turn by the other. Each has to reach a state of forgiveness and contrition before they can leave purgatory and move on. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 5. Weight in Grams: 74.

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).

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Product Details

Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781854596697
SKU
V9781854596697
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About Ariel Dorfman
Ariel Dorfman, born in Argentina in 1942, is a Chilean citizen who was forced into exile after the 1973 coup that overthrew Salvador Allende and established General Pinochet as dictator. His numerous books have been translated into over twenty languages.

Reviews for Purgatorio
'Challenging, aggressively explorative and massively disturbing'
Seattleplays.com
'A charged, poetic inquiry into human relationships... In just three scenes, Dorman delivers a ferocious battle of wills'
Theatremania.com
'A dramatist of serious quality'
The Times

Goodreads reviews for Purgatorio


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