PREAMBLE:

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

Title: `Party Time´.

Subtitle: A tragicomedy.

Publishing: faber and faber.

Year of publication: This play was wrote in 1991.

Place of publication: London, Britain.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE:

The characters are nine:

Terry:´ A man of forty´.

Gavin: `A man in his fifties´.

Dusty: `A woman in her twenties´.

Melissa: `A woman of seventy´.

Liz: `A woman in her thirties´.

Charlotte:` A woman in her thirties´.

Fred: `A man in his forties´.

Douglas: `A man of fifty´.

Jimmy: `A young man´. He is thinly dressed.

PLOT:

The story takes place in a reunion of a member ´s club at home of one of them, at

Gavin´ s flat. There are a group of friends and marriages and some persons don´ t meet to others. There are people of all ages, that is, since the twenties to the seventies and they talk about a lot of things.

SCENERY:

At Gavin ´s flat. A large room with sofas, armchair, etc. There are two doors. One of them is half open, in a dim light.

TIME:

Now, that is, the present (in nineties).

CRITIC:

This play is influenced by the absurd theatre at the same time that some plays of Harold Pinter. This approximation to the absurd theatre appears together the influence of the society and the time of the author which are reflected in his play `Party Time´.

PERSONAL OPINION:

I like this play very much because it is an entertaining story in spite of it is very odd, especially, when appears the character of Jimmy. I don´ t find sense to the role of this character. This story is, also interesting, because there a lot of characters and each one of them has a way to see the things, the problems, the situations, etc.

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