The room By Harold Pinter

One act play

Has 4 main characters: Rose/ Bert/ The landlord MR Kidd/ Riley The Negro
Takes place in a rundown room where a couple: Rose and Bert live
Rose is talkative VERY TALKATIVE / Her husband never talks
As much as she is talkative her husband is Cold and unresponsive to all of her talks
The characters are complex and multi-dimensial (COMPLEX/ Way complex)
MR Kidd is either dumb or acts like one.
BERT:
Bert is cold so cold he never seems to care about what his wife says
He doesn’t communicate NEVER once in the whole first part does he answer or
talk even when his wife addresses him or when the landlord came by he doesn’t
seem to engage in a conversation.
He doesn’t communicate his feelings/ thoughts whatsoever.
He seems like a robot better yet a mute and a deaf person who doesn’t care
enough to even greet someone or as much as look at them
He is calm/ collected/ unresponsive/ Robot/ at the beginning but towards the end
he beat a person to death and his wife too (I can’t say much the ending is
ambiguous and unclear).
Mr. sands and his wife’s appearance is pretty much irrelevant but is shows the
outside world or more like the young generation.
Mr. Kidd and Rose can’t seem to understand each other when they talk and yet
he’s the only person with whom she held a long conversation apart from the
sudden guests
Mr. Kidd’s appearance is something like an omen because he brings this dark,
gloomy vibe that makes you feel uneasy. The characters are disoriented with no
sense of reason or clarity
Individuals have a hard time connecting with each other. Here even Bret and Rose
who live together eat together still are not able to communicate not even close to
communicating.
But despite all of this Rose is still is a loving wife/ A caring and attentive person
A welcoming and hospitable hostess
A talkative person yes but still a warm and welcoming soul.
Timid and easily manipulated
Loves her room and very much content with it
Dreads the outside and refers to it as “murder “