MÓNICA PANADERO SAYAS

Teatro Inglés Siglos XIX y XX

Grupo B

THE DUMB WAITER

(Tragedy in four acts)

AUTHOR: Harold Pinter

PUBLISHING: Faber and Faber

AGE AND PLACE OF PUBLICATION: 1960, London.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE:

Ben: he is the older of the pair of assassins and thinks that for that reason it gives right to command him on Gus. Is safe and firm but he is very sensible and it feels shame his social class.  He likes as Gus that treats him like his small brother.

Gus: he is younger and carefree than Ben. He is affectionate and enthusiastic, infantile and he likes much to eat.  During all the play it makes case to Ben and he tries to find out because he is in that situation

PLOT: Gus and Ben are a pair of friends and assassins.  They hide in a cellar of an old restaurant.  While they are prepared for their next murder and they hope the prey speaks of subjects varied like for example on which really  matters to them or to that things are scared. An old dumb waiter that transported plates from the kitchen to the plant of above begins to work and it go down suspicious notes requesting them exotic eaten. As they do not understand nothing decides to make case to the note and they give all the food that they have and they return to receive a new note m requesting them more food and the note them goes accompanied of a tea stock market.  Ben and Gus speak with Wilson, the boy whom it has to warn them of the arrival of victim. Whereas Gus tired of the game of the dumb waiter leaves to by water, Wilson calls and Ben tries to warn Gus but Gus arrives late.  Gus enters the cellar and we see since a shot has stuck him and falls to the ground.

SPACE: is the cellar of an old restaurant where before there was a kitchen with a dumb waiter, two beds, two doors and a tube by which they communicate with Wilson.  It is a unique space since there is no another scenery

TIME:  is a present time but we cannot know how long really is the play.

LITERARY RESOURCES: written in prose and with language colloquial.  It is a style to the play of Waiting For Godot so there are short dialogs between two characters and that gives agility to the play.

PERSONAL OPINION:  is a play confused and it does not have much sense but even so is entertained.  It has great influence by the Beckett's play Waiting For Godot since they are the two characters and is not described much what they want.  But Pinter obtains that we do not hate these two criminals since it makes people normal and not two evildoers.