PREAMBLE:

Author: Harold Pinter (1930-) Britain dramatist, whose plays are approximated to the absurd theatre.

Title: `Ashes to Ashes´.

Subtitle: A tragicomedy.

Publishing: `faber and faber´.

Year of publication: This play was wrote in 1996.

Place of publication: London, Britain.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE:

The characters are two:

Devlin:

He is in his forties. He is the victim of the infidelity of Rebecca.

Rebecca:

She is in her forties. She talks about her infidelity to Devlin.

PLOT:

Devlin and Rebecca are a couple and she talks to him about her infidelity with her lover.

He asks her about how is her lover and she tells him it in full detail. Devlin insists in that he is fell in love with Rebecca, but she doesn ´t pay attention to him because she only has got fixing in her lover.

SCENERY:

In a house. There are a ground-floor room, a window and a garden. Also, there are two armchairs and two lamps.

TIME:

Now, that is, the present (in nineties). It is an evening in summer.

CRITIC:

This play is approximated to the absurd theatre because the author is influenced by it in some plays of himself.

PERSONAL OPINION:

I like this play because it is entertaining and funny with a love and coldness story.

In my opinion, the situation of this couple is a little ridiculous because Rebecca tells him, as if nothing had happened, that she is unfaithful to Devlin and she tells him the way in which her lover kissed her, etc.

Ana Calatayud Moreno- Teatro Inglés de los siglos XIX y XX.