Harold Pinter

Our school is going out to the theater on November 5th at 9pm! We're going to watch a couple of plays by Harold Pinter, "The Dumb Waiter" and "Landscape". If you want to join in, let me know before Tuesday 26th.

The theater is Teatro Liberarte, C/ Francisca Conde, 7
We'll meet at the entrance of the theater at 8:30.

The first of these plays is a dialogue between two men hired to commit a murder.

In Landscape Duff and Beth, middle-aged husband and wife, sit barely moving at either end of an old kitchen table. They live and work in this large house. The master is away: an absentee God. This is a portrait of marriage as a desolate landscape. The dialogue is spare and simple, both remote and pellucid, like lights in a mist. Husband and wife have intertwined and grown inseparably together in shared pain. He is earthier and more ordinary of the two; she is more dreamy, inward-looking, self-sufficient. She has loved somebody once but it was not Duff, and she is secretly nurtured by the memory. Duff knows that he is being excluded but probably doesn't know why. He is the suppliant, living in the urgent present, asking in vain to be heard, to be admitted, and to have his simple strengths recognised.

If you want extra info about the play, click here