Three powerful political plays in one volume - with a substantial introduction by Ariel Dorman.
In Death and the Maiden, a woman seeks revenge when the man she believes to have been her torturer happens to re-enter her life. A classic of 20th-century theatre, the play ran for a year in the West End, was a hit on Broadway and was filmed by Roman Polanski.
In Reader, first performed at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in July 1995, a censor discovers that the subversive novel he is about to ban is describing his own life and hinting that a terrible fate awaits his son. He must hunt down the author before it comes true...
Widows is a smouldering political allegory about a political protest in a country ruled by a military junta, written in collaboration with Tony Kushner, author of Angels in America. It was first staged by the Traverse Theatre Company at the Cambridge Arts Theatre in March 1997.
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'A terrifying moral thriller which combines brilliant theatricality with clear thought and fierce compassion'
" - Sunday Times on 'Death and the Maiden'
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'A veritable hall of mirrors: a mixture of Kafka and Pirandello... a work of obvious integrity and passion'
" - Guardian on 'Reader'
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'A remarkable attempt to dramatise in a semi-mythical way the consequences of recent appalling abuses of human rights'
" - Independent on Sunday on 'Widows'
