Title: the real inspector Hound

Author: Tom Stoppard

Date of publication: on June 17, 1968

Place of publication: at Criterion theatre, London

Dramatis personae:

Moon: he is a critic of theatre, but he becomes an inspector, inspector Hound, an actor of the play about he is watching.

Birdboot: he is a critic of theatre too, and he becomes Simon, another actor of the play about he is watching.

Mrs. Drudge: she is a girl who works in Muldoon´s house with Cinthya, the only person who lives here because she lost her husband.

Felicity and Magnus: are friends of the family.

Simon: he is a friend of Felicity and Cinthya.

Plot:

In this play is developed a double plot. At first place, appear two critics of theatre, Moon and Birdboot. At second place, this men begins to form part of the play which they are watching. Moon, is now the inspector Hound, and Birdboot is now Simon. In the play, police are investigating the murder of the Cinthya husband. But at the end we realize that her husband is not died. Magnus, the brother-in-law of Cinthya is finally her disappeared husband.

At the end of the play Hound and Simon died, but I’m not sure if Moon and Birdboot died too.

Space, time and other aspects:

The space of this play is a theatre in which appears two arm-chairs in which the two characters are sitting. On stage appears a phone continuously.

The time of the play is the present.

The language is colloquial and formal. Tom Stoppard uses a language easy to understand.

I must to empathize the presence of pauses.

Personal opinion:

I think that it is a strange play. In my opinion it is an entertaining and interesting play, but I think that is a little confused and it is difficult to understand.

Tom Stoppard uses the term of “Theatre of the absurd” though the change of two persons that become in two fictional characters.

Although I think that it is an odd play, I recommended it reading.