PARTY TIME
Header:
-Author: Harold Pinter
-Title: Party Time
-Subtitle: Dramatic comedy in one act.
-Editorial: faber and faber
-Year of publication: 1991
-Place of publication: London
Dramatis personae:
-Terry: A man of forty, member of the club with a special relation with Gavin, maybe good friends. He cares of the mother of his child, Dusty. He usually talks about wives and the club.
-Gavin: A man of fifty, he’s the friend of Terry. Like him, usually talk about wives. He seems to be interested on Melissa, and usually talks to she when is not talking with Terry.
-Dusty: A woman of twenty, wife or mother of the child of Terry. She joins the club for the first time and is a bit shy, worried by his new position in society. And she, usually asks where is Jimmy.
-Melissa: A woman of seventy, a good woman and the oldest of the group. She talks with everyone, and specially with Dusty and Gavin, and takes most of the sentences of his friends as a joke.
-Liz: A woman of thirty, a very good friend of Charlotte. She is very jealous or a bad person, because she has a "war declared" to a woman who has raped her beloved one
-Charlotte: A woman of thirty, the best friend of Liz. She talks with Liz about a woman, and she listen carefully to all she says and doesn’t relationate with the others.
-Fred: A man of forty, friend of Douglas, and usually talks about the club and with Douglas about making the peace within the members of the club. He talk with everyone with short and concises sentences.
-Douglas: A man of fifty, friend of Fred, and talks about him about the club but making long explanations and sentences for explain himself propierly, this maybe it’s a symbol of distruting.
-Jimmy: A young man. It doesn’t appear till the end of the play, and presents signs of madness, saying improperties.
Plot:
The play presents a party, when it the beginning, there are conversations within two of the main characters. In first place, we have Terry and Gavin talking about the club, and then appears Dusty. And a few moments after, appears Melissa.
Then, the scene changes to Liz and Charlotte talking about a woman who has raped the beloved of the first one. After that, the scene changes to Douglas and Fred, talking about making peace within the members. And then, the eight characters reunites to talk about their things, the club, and then, Terry and Gavin makes a speech about the party and the club. And Melissa says something about her friends, that everyone’s dead. Finally, Jimmy appears like if he has gone nuts. Maybe it’s the end of the club?
Place and time of plot:
All the play it’s in the club, in a unique, sofisticaded, like all clubs must be, space. The place where all the plot is narrated can be one more of the characters and starring of the play. Althought there is not a definite age in the story, we can situate it in the 90s.
Literary and stylistic resources:
The lenguaje that the author uses in this play it’s a coloquial and simple one, but sometimes, it reaches a vulgar level, when the cast uses expressions like "slut" or something like that and he usually repeat the same sentence in the same conversation, making the reader feel confused, if the characters makes some kind of emphasis or if they are crazy.
Another aspects: There is no other aspects of mention, apart the importance of the club and that all the argument of the play take care on the characters and their evolution.