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Death and the Maiden
By Ariel Dorfman
A classic of 20th-century theatre, Death and the Maiden ran for a year in the West End, was a hit on Broadway and was filmed by Roman Polanski starring Ben Kingsley and Sigourney Weaver.
Olivier Award for Best New Play
A woman seeks revenge when the man she believes to have been her torturer happens to re-enter her life.
'A play for today, for the age of revenge, when dictatorships crumble right and left and the victims, the living dead, emerge from the shadows and present their accounts...' Sunday Times
Also available in the volume, The Resistance Trilogy.
First Staged: Royal Court Theatre, London, 1991
Cast: 1f 2m
£ 8.999781854593900 - PB