Lavish custom fine leather cd case binding, black calf and red snake patterned, commissioned by director Mike Leigh from the Vogel Bindery, NY as an opening night gift to the cast and crew. This example retained by the creators and inscribed to Paul Vogel by Leigh on an interior pastedown 'With appreciation and thanks / Mike." Two cds are enclosed: Portland String Quartet playing Schubert Death and the Maiden and Quartettsatz (Arabesque Z6536) and Ralph Holms and Richard Burnett performing Beethoven Violin Sonatas (Amon Ra, 1984). Light wear to binding, cds untested but apparently fine.
The American Broadway premiere of the play Death and the Maiden by Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman opened at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on 17 March 1992, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Glenn Close, Richard Dreyfuss and Gene Hackman.
The story concerns a Latin American woman, Paulina Salas, who is thrown together by chance with a man, Dr. Miranda, whom she believes to be the police-state thug who repeatedly raped and tortured her 15 years earlier. Paulina ties up and gags Dr. Miranda in her living room, threatens him with a gun, then puts him on "trial" for his presumed crimes, not the least of which was pumping electric current through her body to the accompaniment of the Schubert quartet that gives Mr. Dorfman's play its double-barreled title. The NY Times review noted sceptically that "History should record that Mr. Nichols has given Broadway its first escapist entertainment about political torture."
Lavish custom fine leather cd case binding, black calf and red snake patterned, commissioned by director Mike Leigh from the Vogel Bindery, NY as an opening night gift to the cast and crew. This example retained by the creators and inscribed to Paul Vogel by Leigh on an interior pastedown 'With appreciation and thanks / Mike." Two cds are enclosed: Portland String Quartet playing Schubert Death and the Maiden and Quartettsatz (Arabesque Z6536) and Ralph Holms and Richard Burnett performing Beethoven Violin Sonatas (Amon Ra, 1984). Light wear to binding, cds untested but apparently fine.
The American Broadway premiere of the play Death and the Maiden by Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman opened at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on 17 March 1992, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Glenn Close, Richard Dreyfuss and Gene Hackman.
The story concerns a Latin American woman, Paulina Salas, who is thrown together by chance with a man, Dr. Miranda, whom she believes to be the police-state thug who repeatedly raped and tortured her 15 years earlier. Paulina ties up and gags Dr. Miranda in her living room, threatens him with a gun, then puts him on "trial" for his presumed crimes, not the least of which was pumping electric current through her body to the accompaniment of the Schubert quartet that gives Mr. Dorfman's play its double-barreled title. The NY Times review noted sceptically that "History should record that Mr. Nichols has given Broadway its first escapist entertainment about political torture."