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Moonlight is a play written by Harold Pinter, which premiered at the Almeida Theatre, in London, in September 1993.[1]
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Moonlight | |
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Written by | Harold Pinter |
Characters | Andy, Bel, Bridget, Fred, Jake, Maria, Ralph |
Date premiered | 7 September 1993 |
Place premiered | Almeida Theatre, London |
Original language | English |
Subject | family, love, life, death, and dying |
Genre | drama |
Setting | house and flat |
Official site |
THREE MAIN PLAYING AREAS:
- 1. Andy's bedroom — well furnished
- 2. Fred's bedroom — shabby
- (These rooms are in different locations.)
- 3. An area in which Bridget appears, through which Andy moves at night and where Jake, Fred and Bridge play their scene. (Grove Press ed., n. pag.)
Andy, who is on his deathbed,
rehashes his youth, loves, lusts, and betrayals with his wife, [Bel], while simultaneously his two sons [Fred and Jake] – clinical, conspiratorial, the bloodless, intellectual offspring of a hearty anti-intellectual – sit in the shadows, speaking enigmatically and cyclically, stepping around and around the fact of their estrangement from their father, rationalizing their love-hate relations with him and the distance that they are unable to close even when their mother attempts to call them home. In counterpoint to their uncomprehending isolation between the extremes of the death before life and the death after is their younger sister, Bridget, who lightly bridges the gaps between youth and age, death and life. (Back cover of the Grove Press ed.)
First performed at the Almeida Theatre, London, on 7 September 1993; transferred to the Comedy Theatre in November 1993
At the Laura Pels Theatre, Roundabout Theatre Company, 27 September – 17 December 1995
Part of Harold Pinter Double Bill (with Voices) originally broadcast to marking Pinter's 75th birthday, in October 2005; rebroadcast as part of the Harold Pinter Tribute on BBC Radio 3's Drama on 3, on 15 February 2009.
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