Cast & Creatives:
Sharon Bezzina (Paulina Salas)
Steffan Cheriet Busuttil (Gerardo Escobar)
Victor Debono (Roberto Miranda)
Stephen Oliver (Director)
Romauldo Moretto (Set Design)
Tonight, a stranger calls. For Paulina Salas, his voice triggers a memory she has long tried to suppress. Through months in captivity under a brutal regime, she never saw her captor’s face, but she heard his voice, calm yet menacing. A voice she will never forget. When her husband invites a stranger back to their isolated beach house, she hears that voice again.
Ariel Dorfman’s explosively provocative, Olivier award-winning and critically acclaimed play is a heart-stopping psychological thriller. Written in the wake of the Pinochet regime in Chile, today it resonates even more chillingly as the world watches dictatorships crumble and retribution reign.
Following the critical success of his production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest at Teatru Manoel, director Stephen Oliver commented : “This thrilling play is a riveting, haunting play that explores revenge, trauma and forgiveness and has proved a stunning challenge for all the cast. The psychological twists and turns have had us all working long rehearsals and the play deals with some challenging and difficult themes - torture, betrayal, the repression of painful memories to name a few. The cast – Sharon Bezzina, Steffan Cheriet Busuttil and Victor Debono - have each taken on the challenges of this play and risen to them. There are also some, unexpectedly, lighter moments and we’ve worked hard to bring these out too. So people can expect some points at which they may laugh as well as being gripped by the events that change a couple’s lives forever.” He added: “We hope audiences will enjoy Death and the Maiden. It has been a pleasure to be able to direct and to work with such a dedicated cast.”
Death & the Maiden is a Masquerade Theatre Company production.
Reviews
"Gripping and harrowing"
The Telegraph
"Powerfully unsettling"
Daily Express
"A first rate thriller''
Telegraph
''A chilling coup-de-theatre''
Daily Mail
Contains coarse language, adult themes and description of abuse.