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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The thrill is gone from</FONT></FONT></SPAN></B><FONT
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" color=#333333>political thriller ‘Death and the Maiden’
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Bob Abelman</FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald,
The Morning Journal</FONT></FONT></SPAN></I><SPAN
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Member, International Association of
Theatre Critics</FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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color=#333333>Political thrillers are precarious things.
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Historical facts are tightly interwoven with fiction so
the two are often indistinguishable. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are reprobates, provocateurs and
protagonists aplenty, but it is often impossible to know who is which throughout
the course of the play. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not
until the very end, when the great reveal puts all the pieces and parts
together, that you learn the truth – well, the playwright’s take on the truth –
about who did what to whom and for what political reasons. </FONT><SPAN
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color=#333333>So much rides on precise writing to generate intrigue, provocative
staging to maintain deception and tension, and perfect execution to make the
characters believable and the journey worthwhile.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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color=#333333>Ariel Dorfman's 1990 “Death and the Maiden” is a different kind of
political thriller.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For one thing,
there is no great reveal.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Early on
we learn just who did what to whom and why.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And when the play comes to a close, it
is not at all clear whether what has been said to have occurred actually
occurred at all.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">For more of this review, go to </FONT></SPAN><FONT
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
color=#0563c1>www.clevelandjewishnews.com/columnists/</FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN
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