Jose
Sospedra Canovas
Author: Harold Pinter
Title: Ashes to ashes
Editorial: Faber and Faber
Year and
place published: 1996, London
Dramatis
personae
In this
play, there are only two characters, Devlin and Rebecca. They are
married.
In the play
Rebecca is speaking to him about an strange man, and some strange babies in some
trains. Both of them are in their forties.
The play
starts with both of them talking about a man. Devlin is asking question to
Rebecca, who she respond remembering her past. She tells him about an strange
last love who makes her to kiss his fist. Davlin say to her to kiss his fist
too. At the end she talks about a baby.
Space
The story
happens in a country house, it’s a country space, in a room. It’is the same
space all the play. There is just one space, but there are references to others
places
The play is placed in the present, in a
early evening, in summer, but Rebecca is talking all the time about the past,
so, there are a lot of flashbacks.
There are
no hops in the time.
The time of
the representation has correspondence with the real time.
The play is
written in prose. The language used is standar, colloquial and
simple.
There are
some metaphores
Personal
opinion
In my
opinion, this is a very strange play. I don’t like it, I think that this play is
very difficult to understand, there are thing that apparently have no
sense.
This play
belongs to the Absurd’s theatre, it is written by Harold Pinter. I don’t like
this author, I think that he’s a very difficult author, and a little boring, in
my poor opinion.
The
characters are very confusing, at first I thought that Devlin was the
psyconanlyst of Rebecca, but later I realized that he is not.
I think the
play is boring because there are only two characters, and this makes that there
are long dialogues, which it bored the audience.And apparently in the play
nothing happens. I don’t like at all.