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Mountain Language - Harold Pinter

 
Description: ISBN 0571154131 / Author: Harold Pinter / Genre: Drama / Poetry / Criticism

Newest Review: ... shows that the prisoner was obviously punished, and yet the guard informs him that the new rules allow the elderly woman to ... more

 ... speak the mountain language. This play was written after Pinter visited Turkey and saw the situation of the Kurdish people, yet it also depicts the miserable situation in many countries and totalitarian systems. The censorship of a whole community's language is simply one example of the system's suppression. I previously reviewed another one of Pinter's plays, namely Betrayal which has social themes. Mountain Language belongs to the political theatre which Pinter has significant contributions to especially through pl...more

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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 ...  Read the complete review

 

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