... the audiences perception of their own identity and place within a world which is primarily concerned with the search and need for identity. Pinter was clearly influenced by the fashionable philosophic review of human condition that was prominent in the 1950's and 1960's - existentialism. The play attacks the notion that there are no absolute truths or realities. Pinter is therefore concerned with ... of the play the audience knows nothing about, sits on the bed and stares at the audience in silence for '30 seconds'. Traditionally in realist drama such as Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler char...

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