I'm not sure I should really be rating this because I don't read a lot of plays. Obvs it's stellar, because Pinter won the Nobel Prize for Literature, yo.A friend recommended that I read Betrayal, so that was why I picked this up, and I did really enjoy Betrayal and also Old Times. I was really c...
I'm not a theorist. I'm not an authoritative or reliable commentator on the dramatic scene, the social scene, any scene. I write plays, when I can manage it, and that's all. That's the sum of it. So I'm speaking with some reluctance, knowing that there are at least twenty-four possible aspects of...
copyright © 1968 by FPinter Limited “Tea Party” (short story) copyright © 1963 by FPinter Limited and Theater Promotions Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, with...
A figure can be dimly observed inside it, with his back to the audience. The rest of the stage is dark. In the house the telephone is ringing. It is late at night. Night light in house fades up. Street fades up. HARRY approaches the house, opens the...
The moon and the black leaves. I am smelling it out. The bright day is done. My slow dying dead, my dead dying slow, so long in its tooth. That’s the character of it, gentlemen. I am in a nunnery. He has managed to banish me. What he hoped and what he feared. Oh very near the mark. The who? That’...
It was produced at the Donmar Warehouse, London, on 21 July 2007, with the following cast: EMMA Dervla Kirwan JERRY Toby Stephens ROBERT Samuel West A WAITER Paul Di Rollo Directed by Roger Michell Designed by William Dudley It was produced at the Harold Pinter Theatre (formerly Comedy theatre), ...