Moonlight (play)

THREE MAIN PLAYING AREAS:

1. Andy's bedroom — well furnished

2. Fred's bedroom — shabby

(These rooms are in different locations.)

3. An area in which Bridget appears, through which Andy moves at night and where Jake, Fred and Bridge play their scene. (Grove Press ed., n. pag.)

Andy, who is on his deathbed,

rehashes his youth, loves, lusts, and betrayals with his wife, [Bel], while simultaneously his two sons [Fred and Jake] – clinical, conspiratorial, the bloodless, intellectual offspring of a hearty anti-intellectual – sit in the shadows, speaking enigmatically and cyclically, stepping around and around the fact of their estrangement from their father, rationalizing their love-hate relations with him and the distance that they are unable to close even when their mother attempts to call them home. In counterpoint to their uncomprehending isolation between the extremes of the death before life and the death after is their younger sister, Bridget, who lightly bridges the gaps between youth and age, death and life. (Back cover of the Grove Press ed.)

• ANDY, a man in his fifties
• BEL, a woman of fifty
• JAKE, a man of twenty-eight
• FRED, a man of twenty-seven
• MARIA, a woman of fifty
• RALPH, a man in his fifties
• BRIDGET, a girl of sixteen (Grove Press ed., n. pag.)

• Pinter, Harold. Moonlight, New York: Grove Press, 1994. ISBN 0-8021-3393-2 (10). ISBN 978-0-8021-3393-9 (13). (Parenthetical references to this edition appear in the text.)
• –––. Moonlight. Harold Pinter Double Bill (with Voices). BBC Radio 3 Drama Programmes – Drama on 3. BBC, 15 February 2009. Web. 15 February 2009. [First broadcast Oct. 2005, as part of Pinter's 75th birthday celebration. Re-broadcast 15 February 2009, as part of Harold Pinter Tribute. (Streaming audio accessible for 7 days after broadcasts).]

• Moonlight – HaroldPinter.org: Official Website of the International Playwright Harold Pinter.
• Moonlight at the Internet Off-Broadway Database