Death and the Maiden (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ariel Dorfman
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Plot: Mystery and detective
- Time of Work: 1990
- Setting: Chile
- Principal Characters: Paulina Salas, Gerardo Escobar, Roberto Miranda
- Genres: Drama, Problem play, Psychological drama, Mystery and detective drama, Political drama
- Subjects: Politics, Abused persons, Crime or criminals, Twentieth century, Human rights, Guilt, Rape, Revenge, Truthfulness and falsehood, Kidnapping, Democracy, 1990’s, Torture, Totalitarianism, Chile or Chileans
- Locales: Chile
The Play
On April 6, 1975, Paulina Salas, then a university student, was abducted by agents of her country’s right-wing government. For more than two months, she became one of Latin America’s many “disappeared”; she was interrogated, tortured, and raped in order to elicit from her the name of a leader of the leftist opposition: Gerardo Escobar, then her lover, later her husband. The play takes place fifteen years later, just hours after Gerardo has been appointed head of the new, democratically elected government’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The commission...
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