Purgatorio
From: Tuesday, 15th January 2008
To: Saturday, 9 February 2008
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Synopsis
What if the person who holds the key to my salvation is the one I have hurt most in this world? Are trust and redemption really possible after violence and betrayal? Purgatorio is an intense, poetic enquiry into the themes of forgiveness and retribution.
Our Review:
21 January 2008
Ariel Dorfman has described his new play Purgatorio as an intellectual and emotional sequel to Death and the Maiden. As in that 1991 piece, a prisoner is interrogated by an authority figure. But it’s far less clear cut, and far less clear altogether, than that ferociously gripping encounter between a rape and torture victim and her possible oppressor.
Purgatorio is one of those teasing cliff-hangers which isn’t really a thriller at all but operates by telling us far less than we want to know, and then making us guess anyway. An unnamed woman in black (Adjoa Andoh) is brandishing a knife in a bare room – a prison or an asylum? – at an unnamed doctor or supervisor (Patrick Baladi).
The woman comes from an island, was served by slaves, is known as a witch and has killed her husband’s new woman and her own children. Ah, she must be one of those Medea types, then. At this point, the light changes and the roles are switched: the woman dons t...
Creative
Ariel Dorfman (Author)
Arcola Theatre (Producer)
Daniele Guerra (Director)
Charles Edwards (Design)
Jon Morrell (Design)
Charles Edwards (Lighting)
Jon Morrell (Costume)
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