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Harold Pinter: "The Caretaker"

Pinter's "The Caretaker" lives up to the "Theater of the Absurd" concerning its constant communication-problems. Some examples are still at the main page of "The Caretaker".

A good example of the communication-problems is the following scene at page 30 of the Diesterweg-book:

Davies: I was brought here.
Pause
Mick:   Pardon?
Davies: I was brought here! I was brought here!
Mick:   Brought here? Who brought you here?
Davies: The man who lives here. He...

Through these repeats the play is cumbersome. Moreless the same is it when Mick asks Davies in the beginning of the Second Act five times the same questions:

Mick:   You sleep here last night?
Davies: Yes.
Mick:   Sleep well?
Davies: Yes
       ...
        ...
Mick:   Did you sleep here last night?
Davies: Yes.
Mick:   Sleep well?
Davies: Yes.
Mick:   Did you have to get up in the night?
Davies: No.
       ...
        ...
Mick:   What bed you sleep in?
Davies: Now, look here...
Mick:   Eh?
Davies: That one.
Mick:   Not the other one?
Davies: No.
       ...
        ...
Mick:   Sleep here last night?
Davies: Yes.
Mick:   continuing at a great pace
        How'd you sleep?
Davies: I slept...
Mick:   Sleep well?
Davies: Now, look...
Mick:   What bed?
Davies: That...
Mick:   Not the other?
Davies: NO!       

More information about the book "The Caretaker" and the Communication-Problems in Pinter's "Dumb Waiter".

Textausgabe: Harold Pinter: The Caretaker. 5. Auflage; Frankfurt/Main: Diesterweg. ISBN: 3-425-04150-9

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