20 questions.(Ariel Dorfman)(Interview)

From: American Theatre | Date: December 1, 2005 | Copyright information

This season, ARIEL DORFMAN--the poet, novelist, dramatist and educator--has back-to-back debuts of three new plays: Purgatorio, which just closed at Seattle Repertory Theatre; the Other Side, currently at Manhattan Theatre Club; and Picasso's Closet, which begins in June at theater J in Washington, D.C.

Because you spent most of your life writing about Chile, where you served as cultural adviser to the socialist government of Salvador Allende, there's this specific idea ...

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