When: Sunday, November 15, 2009 7:00 PM - 9:15 PMWhere: Nasher Museum of ArtCost: $5 – Duke Ticket Office – 919.684.4444 or tickets.duke.eduMore Info
Description: The Duke University Center for International Studies presents a staged reading of: “Picasso’s Closet” by Ariel Dorfman. The acclaimed author of “Death and the Maiden” unveils an extraordinary reimagining of Pablo Picasso living in a time of terror: What (…)
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DURHAM—What if Picasso had not died in 1973 but was murdered by the Germans during the occupation of Paris in 1940?
This is the scenario playwright Ariel Dorfman has devised for his play, “Picasso’s Closet,” which will have a staged reading at the Nasher Museum of Art, beginning Oct. 29.
“Picasso’s Closet” is the first official event celebrating “25 Years of Ariel (…)
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Twenty-five years ago, the playwright and human rights activist Ariel Dorfman accepted an offer to teach at Duke University.
It is a decision he has never come to regret.
This academic year, the Duke University Center for International Studies celebrates “Ariel Dorfman: 25 Years at Duke University,” with a series of events highlighting his playwriting, film and academic career.
Dorfman, who holds the Walter (…)
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Acclaimed Chinese writer Yu Hua will read from his new novel, “Brothers,” on Friday, March 20, from 2:30-4:30 p.m. at Duke University in 0014 Herring Classroom in the Westbrook Building at the Divinity School.
Following the reading, a panel of professors will engage in a conversation about the novel. Carlos Rojas, assistant professor of Chinese Cultural Studies at Duke, and Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, assoc. (…)
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The Duke University Center for International Studies recently asked several Duke faculty members to recommend works that they felt would be “good to think with.” We were looking for books, movies and other works that would deepen our understanding of the cultural, philosophical and historical roots of the critical global issues.
Times of crisis bring countless suggestions for fixes. Hundreds of governmental (…)
Ariel Dorfman, Barack Obama, democracy, diplomacy, foreign policy, governance, human rights, Inauguration
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It was in Chile, sometime in the early 1960s, that I saw my first Pinter play, that’s where and when I first heard Harold Pinter’s name spoken, that’s where and when and how something in my work and life changed forever.
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TORONTO, October 20, 2008 – A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman has won the Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary Program for Peter Raymont and Best Original Music Score for a Documentary Program or Series for composer Mark Korven. White Pine Pictures accepted the awards at tonight’s News, Sports and Documentary Gala at the 23rd (…)
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In its 2008/2009 season, Malmö Opera is proud to present Death and the Maiden. Death and the Maiden, based on the play of the same name by Ariel Dorfman, is the second opera composer Jonas Forssell has created for the Malmö Opera, where he is in residence.
The world premiere is Sept. 20 in Malmö, Sweden.
Dorfman wrote the libretto for the (…)
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TORONTO, August 27, 2008 – White Pine Pictures announced that its documentary film A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman was nominated for three Gemini Awards. The Gemini Awards are the highest honor given to Canadian English-language television and are the equivalent of the Emmy Awards in the United States.
The film, based on Ariel Dorfman’s memoirs of (…)
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Ariel Dorfman
Artist-in-residence/Writer
Ariel Dorfman is a Chilean-American poet, novelist, playwright and human-rights activist who holds the Walter Hines Page Chair of Literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University. He has received numerous international awards, including the Sudamericana Award for novel, the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Play (”Death and the Maiden,” which has been made into a feature film by (…)
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