ASHES TO ASHES

HEADLINE:

Author: Harold Pinter

Title of the play: Ashes to Ashes

Editorial: Faber & Faber

Year of publication: 1996

Place of publication: -

DRAMATIS PERSONAE:

Delvin: Man of forty years old.

Rebeca: Woman of forty years old, it seems that between Delvin and she are something more than friendship, but we don’t know surely.

PLOT:

Rebeca tells to Delvin, that seems to be her couple, what happened to her with a lover that she had( a guided tourist), who practically asphyxiate her after do her to kiss his fist. Delvin thinks that if he did that is to kill her, although she negated. When Delvin listen all this he has curiosity of his man and ask Rebeca about he, so she starts to say that she love him very much, and she tells the things with so enthusiasm and so affect to the other man that seems to be love of this instead of Delvin, by the way Delvin starts to adopt the same personality of the man that she talks about but she ignore him and continues talking. After she starts to sing and says that she is not the lover of anybody (for this motive I don’t know if they are a couple or not). And the play ends while she is talking that someone carried away a baby, but is so confuse.

SPACE:

This play is located in a country house with two armchairs, two lamps and a window that shows the garden.

TIME:

This play is in a summer afternoon, it seems to be in the present because the author when he refers to the time says “now”.

STYLISTICS AND LITERARY RESOURCES:

The play is written in an informal language, there are a lot of pauses and silences between the phrases with the finality of the reader could understand without problems. The register is vulgar. At the end of the play, appear a “third voice” that is the echo that repeat the final worlds of Rebeca.

PERSONAL OPINION:

Due to I don’t understand very well the end of the play, I couldn’t say if I like it or not, I think that don’t has many sense. The dialogues are very confusing and really I can’t understand if the story that tells at the end had happened to her or not, maybe yes and so this she is traumatised.