Araf

by Ariel Dorfman, A. Feyzi Korur (Translator)

Ariel Dorfman bu oyununda, antik Yunan kahramanı Medea'nın öyküsüne benzer bir öykü içinde, birbirlerine tamiri imkânsız biçimde hasar vermiş olan bir kadınla bir adamın, birbirlerini acımasızca sorgulamalarını sahneye taşıyor. ...."Bu oyun, katlanılamaz bir saldırı karşısında yıkıldığımızda ne yapmamız gerektiği sorusunu sorar; kurbandan suçlayıcıya, kurbandan saldırgana, saldırgandan kurbana geçmenin ne kadar kolay olduğunu ortaya koyar.” A. Dorfman.

1erkek. 1 kadın.

Genres: Plays, Theatre, Drama

56 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. A citizen of the United States since 2004, he has been a professor of literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina since 1985.

Reviews

[Çağdaş T]

Yunan Mitolojisi'ndeki Medea karakterinin ölümünden sonra Araf'taki durumunu konu alan oyun.
Oyunu okumadan önce bence Medea'yla ilgili önbilgi gerekiyor.

[Ellie]

i just kept staring at the man and the woman thinking these two are irredeemable. do they know they’re irredeemable? i don’t know if they know they’re irredeemable. then i thought that’s too harsh, and it really isn’t for be to judge. perhaps almost irredeemable is more fair, given the setting. either way, it’ll take forever. yes. but that’s what they’ve got. for now.

[Sofia Natella]

Impressive

[Fc O'neill]

2006- Play - 48pp
What is the worst thing a man could do a woman and what would be the worse thing a woman could do to a man? This script goes down that dark road, starting at the bitter end. The man and the woman are caught in purgatory after death. They are faced by an inquisitor who must bring the other to full realisation of what they have heinously perpetrated in life. Only with that acknowledgment can they move forward to the next step.

This play continues on themes first brought forward by Ariel Dorfman in his debut play DEATH AND THE MAIDEN. It looks at the cycle of blame, anger, hatred and retribution. The will to freedom from this lies not, one concludes, in independent choice but in an interdependent surrendering of resentment. Resentment is the sticking point before forgiveness and this is purgatory of the title.

[Tammy]

Short, one act play. A take on Jason and Medea. Interesting.