About the Author

Ariel Dorfman, poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright, is a Chilean expatriate who lives with his family in Durham, North Carolina, where he now holds the Walter Hines Page chair at Duke University.

Reviews

Winner of the Olivier Award for Best Play

“Like Sophocles . . . a terrifying moral thriller which combines brilliant theatricality with clear thought and fierce compassion.”
—Sunday Times (London)