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Dorfman’s dramatic thriller, which won the prestigious Olivier Award for Play of the Year in 1991, is a three-person show about the violent confrontation between a rape victim and the man she believes is her attacker. Set in 1993 in a South American country resembling Chile—which Dorfman fled in 1973 after Augusto Pinochet came to power in a bloody coup—”Death and the Maiden” begins with Paulina Escobar (Carla M. Borras ’05) listening to the news that her husband Gerardo (Rupak Bhattacharya...
Dorfman’s dramatic thriller, which won the prestigious Olivier Award for Play of the Year in 1991, is a three-person show about the violent confrontation between a rape victim and the man she believes is her attacker. Set in 1993 in a South American country resembling Chile—which Dorfman fled in 1973 after Augusto Pinochet came to power in a bloody coup—”Death and the Maiden” begins with Paulina Escobar (Carla M. Borras ’05) listening to the news that her husband Gerardo (Rupak Bhattacharya...
...accuse Dr. Roberto Miranda of raping Paulina Escobar on 14 separate occasions, each time playing Death and the Maiden,” Paulina begins her mock trial of the doctor. He denies involvement in her rape, while she claims that, though blindfolded while being tortured, she recognizes Miranda by his voice. Screaming, obscenities and tears soon follow as the audience tries to assess whether the doctor is guilty...
...idea for the new novel came from the case of Alejandro Hernandez, who was sentenced to death for the 1985 rape and murder of a young girl. Turow was alerted to the case by a friend. When he read the evidence--which largely rested on a single sentence in English spoken in the midst of a conversation in Spanish--and learned that a convicted child murderer had already confessed to the girl's killing, he says, "I became virtually unhinged. I couldn't believe this was happening in America...
...Phoebe Gloeckner's deliberately tough, difficult "Diary of a Teenage Girl," feels totally authentic because it is. As such, it makes such sanitized, safe books about teen's "real" problems, the Judy Blume-type material, seem utterly out of touch. Ironically, thanks to its uncompromisingly explicit details of rape and drug abuse, "Diary" may be completely inappropriate for anyone under 18. But for everyone else, "Diary of a Teenage Girl" reveals a reality that I fear more teenagers than we know have experienced...