MÓNICA PANADERO
SAYAS
Teatro Inglés
Siglos XIX y XX
Grupo B
BETRAYAL
AUTHOR:
Harold Pinter
PUBLISHING:
Faber and Faber
AGE
AND PLACE OF PUBLICATION: 1978,
DRAMATIS
PERSONAE:
Jerry:
he is 40 years old, married and has two children.
Emma:
is Robert’s wife, she is
between 30 – 40
years old. She is very pretty and has two
children.
Robert:
is Emma’s husband and he already is 40 years old
PLOT:
the
play is developed by means of a series of flashback.
At the beginning makes reference to the present and later to the
past. Everything begins when
Emma is with Jerry after many
years and with which she had a loving adventure while she was
married. Emma tells Jerry that
her husband knows it but
that he does not give the smaller importance. In a
flashback we are backing down to past being able to see how
history finishes of lovers, how the husband finds out and his
reaction, until at the end we can see how everything began, it
was in a party in the house of the marriage in which Jerry
confesses his love to Emma.
SPACE:
the space is changing constantly during the play. The
characters appear in a pub, in Jerry's study, the apartment where
Emma and Jerry met, the house of Robert and Emma, the room of a
hotel and in a restaurant
TIME:
the play is going back in time and goes from the years 1977
– 1968
LITERARY
RESOURCES: the play as we have said before is counted
by means of a series of flashbacks and are scenes that name or
remember what it will happen later therefore there is a
repetition
PERSONAL
OPINION: in spite of
being a full play of
flashbacks which can take confuse I have it liked much because it
is very funny. The doubt that
we can have is to know who
betrays who. As the title indicates, "Betrayal",
everything is a series of treasons; who betrays, Jerry and Emma
to Robert to have had the loving adventure, or Robert his best
friend to never say to him that he knew of that relation? I
think that it is a chain of treasons, more serious than others
but everything is treasons