HEADLINE:
Author: Harold Pinter
Title:
Party time
Editorial:
Faber and Faber
Year
of publication: 1991
DRAMATIS PERSONAE:
Terry: He is a man of forty years old, supposedly husband of Dusty.
Gavin: He is a man of fifty years old. He organised the party.
Dusty: She is a woman of twenty years old, who like cooking at boats. She is
the sister of Jimmy and the wife of Terry.
Liz: She is a woman of more than thirty. She is the wife of Douglas, and she
alone take care of her sons.
Charlotte: She is a widow woman of thirty years old. Her husband died very fast.
Fred: He is a man of forty years old that flirts with Charlotte.
Douglas: He is a man of fifty, he is the husband of Liz.
Jimmy: He is a young man, brother of Dusty. He only appears at the end of the
play.
PLOT:
There
is a business party at the Gavin’s house. The people is well dress. All the
play is based practically in that Gavin and Terry had a conversation about a new
club that one of them know and it seems to be of an elevate class. How is
passing the time, the rest of the invited introduced to the conversation going
to disperse the conversation as always in a group of people, themes as towels,
the black death or the critic of a girl. By other hand Douglas and Charlotte
stars to flirt… Later all of them say that the party had been really good
although the bad organisation.
SPACE:
All
the play is at the Galvin’s house, in a big room with sofas and cupboards.
TIME:
The
time perfectly could be the actual present. All the play is in one day, could b
eat the afternoon or night.
STYLISTIC AND LITERARY RESOURCES:
It
is written in a colloquial language to be the comprehension of the reader
better. There are repeated words that are from the Old English and other from
vulgar english.
PERSONAL OPINION:
In
my opinion the play is quite well, although I can’t find the meaning. It seems
to me entertaining to reading but I suppose that to be represented could be
quite boring. Really I like the idea that the play is based on a party although
the dialogues are quite absurds.