20 questions.(Ariel Dorfman)(Interview)

This season, ARIEL DORFMAN--the poet, novelist, dramatist and educator--has back-to-back debuts of three new plays: Purgatorio, which just closed at Seattle Repertory Theatre; the Other Side, currently at Manhattan Theatre Club; and Picasso's Closet, which begins in June at theater J in Washington, D.C.

Because you spent most of your life writing about Chile, where you served as cultural adviser to the socialist government of Salvador Allende, there's this specific idea of who Ariel Dorfman is.

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I don't want to be typecast. You know, "Ariel ...

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