{"product_id":"9781854596697-purgatorio","title":"Purgatorio","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eA powerful and poetic play, with echoes of Jean-Paul Sartre's \u003cem\u003eHuis Clos\u003c\/em\u003e and Euripides' \u003cem\u003eMedea\u003c\/em\u003e. From the author of \u003cem\u003eDeath and the Maiden\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA powerful and poetic play, with echoes of Jean-Paul Sartre's \u003cem\u003eHuis Clos\u003c\/em\u003e and Euripides' \u003cem\u003eMedea\u003c\/em\u003e. From the author of \u003cem\u003eDeath and the Maiden\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Man and a Woman in purgatory – a soul-less white room. Each is interrogated in turn by the other. Each is groping for forgiveness and contrition. But one of them has done something unforgiveable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAriel Dorfman's play \u003cem\u003ePurgatorio\u003c\/em\u003e was first performed at the Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle, USA, in November 2005. (An earlier version was first performed in a rehearsed reading at the Criterion Theatre, London, in November 2001).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe play was first staged in the UK at the Arcola Theatre, London, in January 2008.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41610635968609,"sku":"9781854596697","price":9.51,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28144891.jpg?v=1722351247","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781854596697-purgatorio","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}