On Friday afternoon, GCSE students at Leckford Place performed scenes from Pinter's Mountain Language. In keeping with the play's characteristic austerity, the production was minimal and direct, with silence used as a powerful dramatic device - quite as much as the spoken lines.
Exploring the theme of language - specifically, its power as a vehicle of oppression - the play centres upon a small group of "mountain people", who are forbidden by military decree to use their own language, instructed instead to adopt the "language of the capitol".
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