Other original screenplays include SHAHEED, BURNING CITY and an adaptation of his novel BLAKE’S THERAPY. In 1995, his film PRISONERS IN TIME, a BBC Teleplay co-written with Rodrigo Dorfman, won Best Feature Film screenplay WGGB Awards. Other plays include PURGATORIO – which ran in Madrid in 2011 starring Viggo Mortensen, THE OTHER SIDE/DELIRIUM, (Market Theatre, Johannesburg, 2012) PICASSO’S CLOSET and SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER: VOICES FROM BEYOND THE DARK (featuring some of the most prominent actors and actresses in the world). WIDOWS and READER have won awards from the Kennedy Center and also been staged worldwide. His play DEATH AND THE MAIDEN won England’s Olivier Award for Best Play 1991 and was produced on Broadway, made into a feature film by Roman Polanski and was revived in London’s West End starring Thandie Newton in late 2011 it continues to be produced all over the world. His books have been translated into over fifty languages and his plays staged in more than one hundred countries.
(Oct.Ariel Dorfman, the Chilean-American author of numerous works of fiction, plays, poems, screenplays and essays in both Spanish and English, is the Walter Hines Page EMERITUS PROFESSOR at Duke University. All in all, this is an excellent, quick and powerful read, accessible to everyone. All the while, with a philosophical scalpel, the author cuts away at the question, How did Pinochet come to be? How did he move from the man who, before the coup, was "servile and fawning," to the man who called for the torture and murder of people who had counted him a good friend? Though the question is never fully answered in the end, and Pinochet is not tried by either Spain or Chile (for reasons of mental incapacity), the book finishes on a positive note, citing the Serbian uprising against Milosevic as influenced by the Pinochet episode. As Dorfman follows the case (listening by radio, watching live Webcasts and even sitting in the audience of the House of Lords) and leads readers through appeal after appeal, he dives deep into the history of Pinochet's ascension in 1973 and provides heartbreaking and horrific accounts of torture and murders committed by Pinochet's men under his command. The tale begins when Dorfman, about to board a plane for San Francisco, first hears the news of Pinochet's detention by Scotland Yard and of Spain's call for extradition to try him for crimes against humanity. The author follows the appeals, victories and defeats involved in Spain's, and then Chile's own, attempts to try Augusto Pinochet for crimes he committed as president of Chile in the 1970s and '80s. Acclaimed Chilean novelist Dorfman ( Blake's Therapy,Įtc.) offers a work slim but dense with emotion.
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