Death and the Maiden

Minneapolis Theatre Garage
711 West Franklin Avenue Minneapolis

Fifteen years after Paulina Escobar's torture at the hands of her government's secret police, she comes face to face with a man she believes she recognizes as one of her tormentors. Brought into her home unknowingly by her husband, this stranger's voice sounds unnervingly to Paulina like that of the man who once raped and viciously abused her as she lay blindfolded in a military detention center. What evolves is a tense and riveting look at a lingering trauma, and whether a woman, and by extension an entire country, can put such a violent past to rest. Winner of an Olivier Award for Best New Play when it premiered, Death and the Maiden was written by acclaimed Chilean political playwright Ariel Dorfman, and adapted into a 1994 Roman Polanski film starring Sigourney Weaver. This latest revival now comes to the stage at Minneapolis Theatre Garage.