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The caretaker

            The Caretaker A Play can be confrontational, challenging and disturbing.
             to the values and assumptions of an audience. Discuss with close reference.
             to The Caretaker. The Caretaker, written by the British playwright.
             Harold Pinter in the late 1950's and early 1960's disrupts the audiences.
             perceptions of existence and their understandings of it. The play.
             deconstructs perceived notions and conceptions of reality, and disturbs.
             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 what exists as unknown and.
             intangible to humanity. His theatre interrogates the truth of nature and.
             realities of language and demonstrates that much of what the audience.
             regards as fact is fiction as he explores the uncertainty of human.
             existence. When an audience of the 1960's went to the theatre, it can.
             generally be assumed that they had preconceived ideas about what they.
             expected and what they are going to gain from the theatrical experience.
             The traditional attitudes towards theatre and the conventions of realist.
             drama are disrupted by Pinter. This confronts the assumptions and values.
             of the audience, an experience which would be disconcerting and.
             frightening to many. Pinter divorces and exposes society's codes,.
             institutions and human relations. Throughout the play the audience is.
             rarely comfortable. This disruption is established from the outset of the.
             play when Mick, a character who at this stage 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 characters use simple exposition through language and.


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