Death and the Maiden

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Death and the Maiden

play by Dorfman

Also known as: “La muerte y la doncella”

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Glenn Close
Theatrical work
…in The Real Thing and Death and the Maiden, respectively. In 1995 she impressed Broadway audiences as the delusional former film star Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s theatrical production of Sunset Boulevard, for which she won another Tony Award, this one for best actress in a musical. Her performance…
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…in The Real Thing and Death and the Maiden, respectively. In 1995 she impressed Broadway audiences as the delusional former film star Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s theatrical production of Sunset Boulevard, for which she won another Tony Award, this one for best actress in a musical. Her performance…
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Ariel Dorfman
…muerte y la doncella (1990; Death and the Maiden), perhaps his best-known work, was completed in Chile as he observed his country’s painful transition from authoritarianism to democracy. The politically charged play follows Paulina Salas, a former political prisoner in an unnamed Latin American country, whose husband unknowingly brings home…
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…muerte y la doncella (1990; Death and the Maiden), perhaps his best-known work, was completed in Chile as he observed his country’s painful transition from authoritarianism to democracy. The politically charged play follows Paulina Salas, a former political prisoner in an unnamed Latin American country, whose husband unknowingly brings home…
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