Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #83377 in Books
• Published on: 1989-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 20 pages

Customer Reviews

imprisonment in a dictatorship. citizens forbidden to speak
This play was a sensation on its opening in London. It ran for 25 minutes only, a unique duration for a major play. It portrays a society where totaliarianism has reached its most severe form. Citizens of the country are forbidden to speak their native language, and are imprisoned for the most minor infringements of regulations. Most of the atmosphere is conveyed by recorded sounds, iron gates clanging, helicopters overhead, attack dogs howling, shouts and screams. It's one of Pinter's densest plays, a work of unrelieved terror and hopelessness