Ariel Dorfman's powerful trilogy of works (Death and the Maiden, Widows, and Reader) will be performed both in New York and in Europe throughout the summer.

A Short Bio of Ariel Dorfman

Ariel Dorfman is an acclaimed Chilean writer and human rights activist. Born in Argentina and raised partly in the United States, Dorman settled in Chile only to be forcibly exiled after Pinochet’s bloody 1973 military coup. In poetry, novels, plays, and journalism, he has penned powerful exposes of tyranny, repression, exile, and the resilience of the human spirit. His works include Widows (1981; tr. 1983), The Late Song of Manuel Sendero (1983; tr. 1987), My House Is on Fire (1990), Heading South, Looking North (1998), The Nanny and the Iceberg (1999) and, of course, Death and the Maiden (1992).


A note from Artistic Director Ianthe Demos

We are particularly excited to work with Ariel Dorfman, whose plays span the continents and speak to the conflicts of our time. The Resistance Trilogy challenges us to explore a haunting paradox and to continue our mission of presenting provocative plays to diverse audiences. As Dorfman puts it, “On the one hand, [there is] the glorious potential and need of human beings to tell stories; and, on the other, the brutal fact that in today’s world most of the lives that should be telling those stories are generally ignored, ravaged, and silenced.” We look forward to producing some of these stories.