-Title: The Collection

-Subtitle: Drama in one act.

-Editorial: faber and faber

-Year of publication: 1961

-Place of publication: London

-Harry: A man of forty who lives in his house with Bill. He’s a smart and calm man, who has a special reaction to the church bells, who disturbs him completely. Although this, he seems to be the thinking head of the two.

-James: A man of thirty who lives in his flat with his wife, Stella. He’s a paranoic man who thinks that his wife has been unfaithful with Bill, but although she dosen’t confirm him anything, he thinks that till the end of play.

-Stella: A woman of thirty, the wife of James. She’s a dresser designer, like Bill. She carries the weight of the accusation of unfaithfulness left by her husband, something that makes she to be down.

-Bill: A man on his late twenties, friend of Harry. He’s a dresser designer too, and h’s been acusated by James to have a relation with his wife, something that he admits but it’s not true.

Harry receives a call asking for Bill, and he doesn’t known to who belongs the voice that talks. After that, he asks to Bill if he knows who is the one who has called before, but he hasn’t have any idea. Earlier, Bill receives a call from the voice of before, and insists to go to his house to talk about a thing.

James reaches the house of Harry and Bill, and taks with him about the unfaithfulness. He starts to ask questions about the place, the time… and tell to him all the things that he does there. Bill surprises, and admits the true to him.

Later, James and Stella begins to talk about that and Stella ends crying. Harry discovers things about the relationship between Stella and Bill and he goes to talk with her. He discovers that nothing happen between they.

Fast, he returns to his house where James has dropped a knife to Bill who has his hand with a cut. Harry tells everything to James, and he goes begging for pardon. And returns to his house, where Stella waits for him, smiling.

The scene is divided in three areas, at the left, we have the house of Harry in Belgravia and in the right we have the flat of James in Chelsea and in the center there is a promontory where is a telephone box. The play divides in these three areas sharing starring the first two with a link between them that is the telephone box.

Like any other play from this author, predominates the short statements and the fast dialogues within the characters. The use of pauses make a harder ambient for the situation of the characters.

The author doesn’t give much information about the sceneplay, and only takes care about the characters of the play, giving to they the most importance of the play with their dialogues, their situation and everything that surround them.

Like personal opinion, this is the play that I less liked from Harold Pinter. Maybe the characters are not that charismal like the others or the situation is not that original. Although this, it’s a good play, but less that the others.