These Forces Of Violence It is Saturday night, again. The curtains are drawn, the door is locked and an old couple watch TV, the husband counting the minutes until he and his wife are ‘officially tired’ and the night can begin properly. But someone is coming tonight at 10 o’clock who will turn this Saturday night into Sunday morning for the first time in a long time. And that which had stopped will start again, in another time and another place. Critical Analysis In this essay I attempt a rationale for the play. I look at its origins, the use of several dramatic conventions (specifically story and plot, time and space andcharacter) and I reflect on the creative process.