Throughout this play, Gerardo Escobar and his wife Paulina Salas struggle over how to treat Dr. Roberto Miranda, a former torturer in a dictatorship based on the regime of Augusto Pinochet.
The first scene of this play's third act ends with a giant mirror descending and covering two characters as the final movement of Mozart's "Dissonance" quartet plays. Before that mirror descends, one of those characters orders the other to confess at gunpoint after hearing him correct the name of a brutal soldier from "Bud" to "Stud." This play opens with its main female character crouching down to hide from the headlights of an approaching car. A flat tire causes a doctor to give a ride home to a member of an investigative commission corresponding to the real-life Rettig Commission. Upon seeing that doctor, this play's only female character ties him up and orders him to confess to raping and torturing her. Throughout this play, Gerardo Escobar and his wife Paulina Salas struggle over how to treat Dr. Roberto Miranda, a former torturer in a dictatorship based on the regime of Augusto Pinochet. Named for the piece of music played by Dr. Miranda before torturing victims, FTP, name this play by Ariel Dorfman which also titles a Franz Schubert composition.
The first scene of this play's third act ends with a giant mirror descending and covering two characters as the final movement of Mozart's "Dissonance" quartet plays.
{Death and the Maiden}