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Prepared by:
Shamala Maheswaran
Pinters Contexts:
Thriller Theatre and The
It was
Pinters first Party
hand experience that formed
Birthday
the background for TBP
Pinters Contexts-Gang
Mccann
and Goldberg use the routines of interrogative detectives
Culture
such as trapping victim in a chair and flanking him on either side
of the chair, imitating Stanleys eventual caging at Monty, calling
Stanley Eh Boy and disallowing adult speech for Stanley.
Identity
The organisation that Stanley is accused of
having betrayed is not specifically identified
although it may be seen to stem from a number
of possible sources
criminal (building society with its associations of
shady characters who launder their ill-begotten
riches through the construction industry)
Religious betrayal (Albegenisist heresay, Judas
etc)
metaphysical, or
political.
During interrogation in particular, references are
made to possible interests in Northern Ireland,
for example. But the organisation remains