No Man's Land
No Man's Land
Author: Harold Pinter
First Performance: 1975, London
Published: 1975
Genre: Drama in 2 acts
Setting: Hirst's home, north London, 1970s
Cast: 4m
Hirst and Spooner, two men in their sixties who have met in a pub, are drinking and conversing in a large room in Hirst's ‘well but sparely furnished’ home near Hampstead Heath. They exchange reminiscences, drunkenly and unenthusiastically rehearsing their moderate success as writers, and discussing their mothers, wives, and friends. Spooner even suggests that he may have seduced Hirst's wife. Eventually, Hirst is so drunk that he collapses on the floor and is led out by Briggs, one of his servants. Foster, a somewhat younger servant who at first claims to be Hirst's son, seems to resent Spooner's presence, switches off the lights, and...
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