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Pinter's Silence: The Impossibility of Communication

SILENCE WAS COMPLETED IN JANUARY 1969 and was put on the stage for the first time in a double bill with its companion piece Landscape by the Royal Shakespeare Company on July 2,1969. The very fact of their joint performance already points to a similarity of a certain nature between the two plays. As in Landscape, the dramatis personae reminisce in cross-cut monologues over past events, and they do so without any apparent consistency underlying their skipping from one subject to another. And since the dramatic figures are equally confined to speaking, the lack of dramatic action or plot in the traditional sense of the term renders any attempt at summarising the play as difficult as with Landscape.