Death and the Maiden

Fifteen years after Paulina Escobar's torture at the hands of her government's secret police, she comes face to face with a man she believes she recognizes as one of her tormentors. Brought into her home unknowingly by her husband, this stranger's voice sounds to Paulina unnervingly like that of the man who once raped and viciously abused her as she lay blindfolded in a military detention center years before. What evolves is a tense and riveting look at how one woman deals with her humiliation and pain at the hands of a sadistic torturer. Winner of an Olivier Award for Best New Play when it premiered, Death and the Maiden now comes to St. Paul's Gremlin Theatre.