
Death and the Maiden
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Ariel Dorfman’s gripping, Olivier Award-winning political thriller 'Death and the Maiden' turned the stage of the Brooks Atkinson Theatre into a claustrophobic, real-time crucible of justice and memory during its historic 1992 Broadway premiere. Set inside an isolated beach house in a newly democratic nation emerging from a brutal dictatorship, the tense psychological thriller tracks Paulina Escobar, a former political prisoner who takes a stranded stranger hostage, binding him to a chair, convinced by the sound of his voice and medical phrases that he was the sadistic doctor who tortured her. Directed by Mike Nichols, the powerhouse production starred Glenn Close, Richard Dreyfuss, and Gene Hackman.

