Death and the Maiden
Opens May 7, 2009
“Pulitzer
prize winning moral thriller” by Ariel Dorfman, directed by Judie
Hanel.
CAST will be partnering with Columbia River Fellowship for Peace for this CAST production.
Death and the Maiden has been staged in over 30 countries. The play received the Pulitzer Prize, Time Out Award in London and a Tony on Broadway.
(Scroll down for more info about the play.)
Performance Dates
The play opens Thursday, May 7, 2009 and runs three weekends through May 23rd.
Purchase Tickets
| When | May 7, 8, 9, 15, 16, 21, 22 & 23 at 7:30 |
| Pricing | $15 Adults, $12 Seniors and Students |
| Tickets |
Also at Collage of the Gorge, White Salmon, Waucoma Bookstore in Hood River, and Columbia Center for the Arts |
| Location | Columbia Center for the Arts, Hood River |
Sponsors Still Needed
Additional sponsors are still needed. If you are interested in sponsoring this show contact Judie Hanel at 386-6221. Please see below the names of people who have already agreed to be sponsors. Thanks so much to all of them!
About the Play
“Suspenseful, riveting … achieves a universality that is movingly personal” (The New York Times)
Ariel Dorfman’s psychological thriller explores retribution and forgiveness on both the personal and political level. It is a moral thriller about a woman, Paulina, who believes that a stranger who comes to her home is the doctor who, under a military dictatorship, tortured her many years before.
This explosively provocative, Pulitzer prize, award winning drama is set in a county that has only recently returned to democracy.
Gerardo Escobar has just been chosen to head the commission that will investigate the crimes of the old regime when his car breaks down and he is picked up by Roberto Miranda. But in the voice of this good Samaritan, Gerardo’s wife, Paulina Salas, thinks she recognizes another man – the one who tortured her as she lay blindfolded in a military detention center years before.
“People can die from an excessive dose of the truth!" says Gerardo Escobar to his wife Paulina, who demands to bring her torturer to justice in Ariel Dorfman’s morality play, Death and the Maiden.”
The line is rich in confounding paradoxes – reflecting the literal reality of those put to death for speaking the truth, as well as the collective denial that often surrounds situations of unspeakable brutality and dehumanization.
The playwright ponders how justice can be truly served by officials bogged
down in corruption and self gain. Yet does vigilante justice promote
a never-ending cycle of tyranny?
Roles
Gerardo Exobar - Paulina's husband, a lawyer between the ages of 45 - 60. Gerardo has recently been appointed by the President to a commission that will examine human rights abuses during the military dictatorship.
- To be played by Will Tyler Daugherty
Doctor Roberta Miranda - A doctor 45 - 60 who has given Excobar a ride home after his car broke down on a deserted road.
- To be played by Rich McBride
Paulina Solas - Gerardo's wife, 45 - 60. Paulina hears Miranda's voice and believes the voice to belong to the man that tortured her in captivity.
- To be played by Desiree Amyx Macintosh
Sponsors to Date
Thanks to the following people for signing up as sponsors for this show. We couldn't do it without you!
- Dale and Judy Nicol
- Anthony Connors, Attorney at Law
- Maureen Higgins
- Pat and Melinda Hannigan
- Bella's Beads and Art Supply
- Julie and Bill Sturman
- Jules Burton and Mark Dane
- Paul and Maria Kollas
- Rees and Eloise Stevenson
- Scott and Elaine Johnson
- Julie Raefield-Gobbo & Robert Gobbo
- Sally Donovan, Donovan & Associates
- Linda Short & Mark England
- Marie Louise Penchoen, Reflexologist
- Gary and Barbara Young
- Jay F. Sherrerd, Attorney at Law
- Susan Garrett Crowley
- Cindy Morus, Don't Divorce Your Money.com
- Judy Poage
- Mick and Sharon Swyers