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Ashes to Ashes
Author(s): Harold Pinter
Set in the living room of a pleasant house outside London. Devlin questions Rebecca relentlessly about an abusive ex-lover. Rebecca mixes her own experiences of violence with those of history, and in the last scene of the play, she loses herself in the experience of a woman who is forced to give up her baby at a train station before being transported to a concentration camp.
Format: Drama
Cast Size:1M/1F
Character breakdown:
Devlin
Rebecca
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First performed in Dutch by Toneelgroep Amsterdam, 1996. English premiere by the Royal Court Theatre at the Ambassadors Theatre, London, September 12, 1996.
First performed in Dutch by Toneelgroep Amsterdam, 1996. English premiere by the Royal Court Theatre at the Ambassadors Theatre, London, September 12, 1996.
Nationality of Author: English
Original Language: English
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Experience(s) Chronicled: Allegoric or Metaphoric Representations | Concentration and Extermination Camps
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