MÓNICA PANADERO
SAYAS
Teatro Inglés
Siglos XIX y XX
Grupo B
THE
COLLECTION
AUTHOR:
Harold Pinter
PUBLISHING:
Faber and Faber
AGE
AND PLACE OF PUBLICATION: 1960
DRAMATIS
PERSONAE:
Stella
Horne:
she is 30 years old and she is the James’s wife
James
Horne:
he is 30 years old too. He is blonde of green eyes and
with hairpiece
Harry
Kane: he
is 40 years old and is the best Bill’s best
friend
Bill
Lloyd:
around about 20 or 25 years old. He lives in the Harry’s
house and he is clothes designer.
PLOT:
First Stella tells her husband who she has been
unfaithful in a hotel of Leeds. James obsesses with
this subject and decides to investigate the name of the lover of
his woman. All it takes to Bill
Lloyd and for it he wants
to speak with Bill, he appears in his floor and James hurts to
Bill with a knife in a fight that they have. Harry had been
speaking with Stella and she said to him that everything had
invented it her husband. At the
end Bill counts all the
truth saying that saw in the hotel but only spoke of which it
could have happened.
SPACE:
the scene is divided in three parts, the right the James's house
in
TIME:
the play passes in autumn, the time is present and the number of
day that passes not defines certain but the play does not give
jumps in the time.
LITERARY
RESOURCES: is written in prose with a colloquial
language and is easy to read
PERSONAL
OPINION: is a play that
can arrive at the
confusion since they go the play looking for the truth and each
one blames to the other, but at the end one of the implied ones
says the truth although never it will be possible known certain
if it really did not happen nothing that night in the room of the
hotel. Here Pinter leaves a end open so that each one we think if
it happened or did not spend something that night and can to
debate it between the readers