“Generally, it’s the tortured who turn into torturers.”

Carl Gustav Jung

Suspense mounts when Paulina and her husband give hospitality to a stranger. Paulina thinks she recognizes, in their guest, the man who tortured her in jail, and she consequently will take him hostage to learn the truth. A stunningly blunt and compelling play, Death and the Maiden explores brilliantly the issues of torture, power, vulnerability, ethics, and trust. An award-winning play by Chilean article writer Ariel Dorfman, compelled into exile in 1973.

An L.A. Theater Works full-cast performance offering John Kapelos, John Mahoney, Carolyn Seymour and Kristoffer Tabori.