Jose Sospedra Canovas
Author: Harold Pinter
Title: Party Time
Editorial: Faber and Faber
The play of Harold Pinter, ‘Party Time’ was
represented for the frist time by Alameida Theatre Company in 31st
October 1991 in Almeida Theatre in London. It was directed by Mark
Thompson.
The play is made up by nine actors who are in a
party in a house of one of them, Gavin.
Terry, he is a man who is fourty years old. He has two children with Dusty, a girl who is ovetwenty years. Another couple are Liz and Douglas who are married. Liz is a thirty girl who is friend of Charlotte. Melissa became widowed and Fred tries to conquer her. Melissa is a friend of Terry that goes to the party with her.
But there is something that keep our attention.
Lacks one character and all the time we asked during all the time. We talk about
Jimmy who I don’t know what meaning this character has, because he doesn’t
appear until the end of the play and he makes a monologue very
strange
There is a waiter too.
Plot
A group of people are in a room in the Gavin’s
flat. They are making a
celebration, a party. They all have in common that they belong to the same club.
All of them have differents conversations about differents things: they speak
about the new club, about hte dead of the Charlotte’s husband, Melisa tells that
all of her friends that belong to others club are dead.
It seems that they are in war for differents
comments that they made throughout the play.
Finally all of them speaks in the same
conversation and the party ends.
At the end Jimmy appears and make a
monologue.
The space is the same during all the play: the
living room of the Gavin’s appartment. It’s a close space, rich and of high
class.
There the conversations take places in
differents places of the living room (on the sofa, in a corner...) but all of
them in the same room. It is clear, it is supossed that is a party and they are
all together. The ambient seems lively and people seems enjoy
it.
The time of the play is the present. It happens
in one day, just in a night, morning or afternoon, we don’t know. There is correspondence between the time
of the play and the real time.
Literary and stylistic
solutions
This play is written in prose.The language is
colloquial, standar, because the characters belong to the half-high class. Some
words belong to the old English like kestrel and some vulgarism, for example
fucking, bitch, etc.
Other play written by Harold Pinter, my dear
Harold Pinter. There is just one thing that I like Harold Pinter. It is that his
plays are very shorts, but althoug they are short, they are very confusing, they
are not easy.
The play, for me, has no interest, because
nothing happens, and it is bored to see how a group of people is talking about a
club, and all the play happens in the same place.
In difference with other Harold’s plays, here I
see a criticism againts the society.