Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman
In an unnamed country which has only recently returned to democracy, a man who has been named to head a commission that will investigate the crimes of the previous regime is driving home one night when his car breaks down. He is rescued by an older man, a kindly doctor. But when he brings him home, his wife recognizes—or think she does—his voice as that of the man who raped and tortured her years before, while she lay blindfolded in a military detention center. Death and the Maiden, the award-winning drama from Ariel Dorfman, is a harrowing suspense thriller that investigates the slippery moral territory between the hunger for justice and thirst for revenge. Do immoral acts justify immoral retribution? And what if the target our legitimate outrage is innocent? How certain can we be of our motives—or of our own morality—when we suddenly have the opportunity to take justice into our own hands?
“A terrifying moral thriller which combines brilliant theatricality with clear thought and fierce compassion.” — Sunday Times (London)
“Suspenseful, riveting…achieves a universality that is movingly personal.” — The New York Times
The Writers Workshop at City Garage – An Evenings of Readings this Saturday at 5:00pm and 7:00pm
Join us this Saturday for an evening of readings from new plays coming out of our Writers Workshop. Work from three writers will be read at 5:00pm and three at 7:00pm. Come for one or stay for both! Admission is free.
5:00pm Readings:
“These Mortals” by Ann Bronston
It is 1980. Faded movie stars of the 30’s and 40’s, living in a actors retirement residence, put on a production of “Midsummer’s Night Dream” In the rehearsal room, Hollywood lore, old grievances, vanished romances, and remembered versions of themselves unravel as they try to untangle their own romantic mismatches.
“JT JD” by Liza Johnson
In a sort of waking nightmare, JD Vance finds himself driving a big rig through Appalachia with JT Leroy, the renowned transgender sex worker and literary hoax.
“Adapt. Or Else.” By Madge Storm Beletsky
A dystopian comic drama that follows a couple over twenty years of marriage as their country gradually morphs into a patriarchal autocracy (it could never happen here…)
7:00pm Readings
“The Eternal Tide of Loveliness” by Kennedy Taylor
An brilliant, elderly English diplomat in post-war Japan—a pioneering voice in gender-fluidity—faces charges of treason for his work under the Imperial Japanese regime during WWII.
“Sad White Boy Music” by Jordin Wang
In the middle of the night in a dying mall in the Inland Empire, a lonely rent-a-cop is visited by the high-school love of his life who has, to his amazement, transitioned into a beautiful young man and adopted the persona of the God Dionysus
“The Deer Hunters” by Mark Herder
In a small-town bar in Missouri, a group of well-meaning, patriotic friends who have just returned triumphantly from the January 6th Insurrection, struggle to come to terms with the consequences of what they’ve done and, with the arrival in town with what might be federal agents, begin to turn on each other in mounting paranoia and suspicion..
See you at the theatre!
Frédérique, Archie (et Charles)
