1977, ISBN: 9783425040240

[ED: Broschur], [PU: Diesterweg, M], The Play I have usually begun a play in quite a simple manner; found a couple of characters in a particular context, thrown them together and listened… Altro …

[ED: Broschur], [PU: Diesterweg, M], The Play I have usually begun a play in quite a simple manner; found a couple of characters in a particular context, thrown them together and listened to what they said, keeping my nose to the ground. The context has always been, for me, concrete and particular, and the characters also. I've never started a play from any kind of abstract idea or theory and never envisaged my own characters as messengers of death, doom, heaven or the milky way or, in other words, as allegorical representations of any particular force, whatever that may mean. This statement, made by Pinter in 1962, seems to apply to No Man's Land, written twelve years later, for when the curtain rises there are just two characters on stage, Hirst and Spooner: the two characters around whom the play revolves. The setting, too, is very precise. Hirst has invited Spooner to his home, a large house in North West London close to Hampstead Heath, where many successful writers, artists and academics live. Hampstead, overlooking the busy centre of London, is a relatively peaceful area. Its large houses and villas contrast with the rows of simpler, semi-detached houses—often identical with one another—that constitute so many of the outer suburbs of London. Then there is the Heath itself, a large unspoilt area of open land which has withstood development and which helps to give Hampstead its unique character, an enclave of peace and elegance surrounded by suburban sprawl. This is the world to which… Für den Schulgebrauch bearbeitet, mit Zeilennummern / Annotations versehen ******************************************* 1. Auflage , DE, [SC: 2.55], wie neu, gewerbliches Angebot, 170x124 mm, 65, [GW: 100g], 1, Banküberweisung, PayPal, Internationaler Versand, [CT: Schulbücher / Englisch (Schulbuch)]<