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Purgatorio

By Ariel Dorfman

A powerful and poetic play 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...

'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' Times

First Staged: Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle, 2005; Arcola Theatre, London, 2008
Cast: 1f 1m

£ 8.999781854596697 - PB