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M1 F1. A white room

From the author of Death and the Maiden comes this "challenging, aggressively explorative and massively disturbing" play. (Seattleplays.com). A man and a woman sit in a stark white room under the surveillance of a video camera. They both wish to escape that purgatorial afterlife, but both hide a secret. They have the chance to interrogate each other in turn and as the woman gradually confronts her past actions there emerges a timeless version of the myth of Jason and Medea. Dorfman takes up many of his previous themes of forgiveness, retribution and redemption.

"Dorfman's play is fascinating, brilliant, elegant, funny and ... revolting ... He endows [his woman protagonist] with poetry worthy of Euripides." Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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