MÓNICA PANADERO SAYAS

Teatro Inglés Siglos XIX y XX

Grupo B

SAVED

AUTHOR: Edward Bond

PUBLISHING: Eyre Methwen LTD

AGE AND PLACE OF PUBLICATION: 1965, London

DRAMATIS PERSONAE:

Pam: she is a young girl. She is 23 years old. She is a thin girl of wide hips, short, pretty

and brown

Len: he has the same age that Pam and is fall in love with her even lives in her floor

renting to her one of the rooms. He is more responsible than the others, but nevertheless

he does not make anything prevent the crime.

Harry: he is the Pam's father, Mery's husband but this separated of her although lives in

the same house but they are not spoken.  He is a serious and quiet person

Mary: she is a housewife of about 53 years. Pam's mother and Harry's wife

Fred: He is a young person who had an adventure with Pam in which end in a son but he

is too irresponsible and immature to become position of the boy

 

PLOT: The history begins whereupon Pam and Len live together since Len rents

to her one room Pam's floor and he declares his love to her. Pam knows another young

person, Fred and as it is obvious Pam requests to Len that leaves but Len does not want

and uses like weapon that takes well with the parents of her. Of the history of Pam and

Fred a boy is born to who nobody does case to him except Len that takes care of to him

like that more.  Pam a day of leaves the boy to Fred who single thinks about going away

of party, takes it of celebration with his friends and kills his own son. On the other hand

the Pam's father thinks that her woman Mary maintains an adventure with Len but is lie

since Len follows enamored with Pam which continues being enamored with Fred

because he is the father of his son and and it does not matter to her that he is in the jail. 

At the end they end up living all together but without spoken.

 

SPACE: the space is multiple since the play is developed in several scenery like

for example the living room, a park, the Len's bedroom, the jail or one cafeteria

 

TIME:  the time perfectly is not defined, but we can made an idea that several

years have passed since of which they lock up to Fred by the murder of his son until it

leaves it must have spent many years

 

LITERARY RESOURCES: written in prose, emphasizing the vocabulary

"cockney" that is represented by means of the contractions that we found throughout all

the play

 

PERSONAL OPINION: it is of the plays that less I have liked, first because it

has much more cost to me to read it by the contractions and second by the spoken

subject, a subject as disagreeable as is the infanticide by an own father, I understand

perfectly that they will censure it at his time