PREAMBLE:

Author: Nigel Williams (1948-).

Title: `Class Enemy´.

Subtitle: A play in two acts.

Publishing: Methuen.

Year of publication:-

Place of publication: London.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE:

They are students of around sixteen years old.

These are their Class Names:

Sweetheart: ( Real Name, Sowerthwaite): She is pretty and the smartest.

Racks: ( Rakes): Racks is a thin, spotty youth in tattered school uniform.

Nipper: ( Napier): A punk rocker, with a distorted uniform which becomes unrecognisable.

Sky-Light: ( Skellet): He is fattish, blonde lad with glasses and a solemn look about him.

Iron: ( Herron): He, who is tall, is wearing a jacket. He is an aggressive boy.

Snatch: (Cameron)

And, finally, the Master.

PLOT:

This plays is about the life of a students around sixteen and their behaviour at school with their schoolmates. In general, they are a bad-mannered people.

SCENERY:

This play takes place in a schoolroom in the south of London.

TIME:

Now, that is, the present (seventies). It is about half past two in the afternoon.

CRITIC:

This play has been represented all over the word and the author won him the Plays and Players Promising Playwright Award.

PERSONAL OPINION:

In my opinion, this play is a little heavy, because the author employs a vocabulary with a lot of abbreviations and apostrophes. The story is, also, slow and long, almost boring, but in spite of all, I think this is a story with a good plot because Williams reflects the typical behaviour of a group of problematic and adolescents students.

The repeated use of the word `fuck’ by the students has attracted my attention all the time.

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