A Kind of Alaska - Harold Pinter

Mountain Language - Harold Pinter

Mountain Language (1988) By Harold Pinter (1930- ) Mountain Language is a very short one-act play by the English playwright Harold Pinter. The first scene shows a young woman and an elderly woman as they go to visit one of their relatives who was accused of speaking the forbidden mountain language. The older woman was bitten by one of the dogs in the prison, and yet the officer and sergeant torture her and her companion with stupid questions and harass the latter sexually. We see in the second scene that the elderly woman was in the prison to visit her son. The woman tries to talk to her son with the mountain language she is used to, for she doesn t know the capital ...

Mountain Language - Harold Pinter

Mountain Language (1988) By Harold Pinter (1930- ) Mountain Language is a very short one-act play by the English playwright Harold Pinter. The first scene shows a young woman and an elderly woman as they go to visit one of their relatives who was accused of speaking the forbidden mountain language. The older woman was bitten by one of the dogs in the prison, and yet the officer and sergeant torture her and her companion with stupid questions and harass the latter sexually. We see in the second scene that the elderly woman was in the prison to visit her son. The woman tries to talk to her son with the mountain language she is used to, for she doesn t know the capital ...

One For The Road - Harold Pinter

One for the Road (1984) By Harold Pinter The play begins with a supposedly religious man-in-authority called Nicholas interrogation of Victor who is just an intellectual. The title "One for the Road" is a reference to the glasses of whisky that Nicholas keeps pouring to himself: "I think I deserve one for the road." As he drinks, he keeps on chatting to himself mostly since Victor remains silent most of the time. He starts telling Victor casually how his books were kicked about, his rugs were urinated on, and also he begins mentioning Victor s wife and son. He simply says how hot the wife is and how everybody is falling in love with her, and asks ...

One For The Road - Harold Pinter

One for the Road (1984) By Harold Pinter The play begins with a supposedly religious man-in-authority called Nicholas interrogation of Victor who is just an intellectual. The title "One for the Road" is a reference to the glasses of whisky that Nicholas keeps pouring to himself: "I think I deserve one for the road." As he drinks, he keeps on chatting to himself mostly since Victor remains silent most of the time. He starts telling Victor casually how his books were kicked about, his rugs were urinated on, and also he begins mentioning Victor s wife and son. He simply says how hot the wife is and how everybody is falling in love with her, and asks ...

Betrayal - Harold Pinter

Betrayal (1978) by Harold Pinter (1930- ) Do you think you know how complicated extramarital relationships can be? Well, what Harold Pinter is trying to tell you in this play is that you have absolutely no idea. The story involves two families: Robert, his wife Emma, and their two children; a boy and a girl, and Jerry, his wife Judith, and their two children who happen to be a boy and a girl as well. The only characters we meet are Emma, Robert and Jerry, and the main betrayal in question is the one that involves Emma and Jerry s affair although other forms of unfaithfulness take place. Falling in love and having an affair with the spouse s best friend looks like a ...

Betrayal - Harold Pinter

Betrayal (1978) by Harold Pinter (1930- ) Do you think you know how complicated extramarital relationships can be? Well, what Harold Pinter is trying to tell you in this play is that you have absolutely no idea. The story involves two families: Robert, his wife Emma, and their two children; a boy and a girl, and Jerry, his wife Judith, and their two children who happen to be a boy and a girl as well. The only characters we meet are Emma, Robert and Jerry, and the main betrayal in question is the one that involves Emma and Jerry s affair although other forms of unfaithfulness take place. Falling in love and having an affair with the spouse s best friend looks like a ...