Word: deeley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Times, Pinter reshapes the archetypes central to his work. In different ways, Deeley and Kate each fight to maintain their huddled numbness against incursions from the outside world, from the past, from the primal depths of their own subconscious. The catalyst of the conflict is Ann, Kate's companion of twenty years before. Anna brings a history heavy with menace, to upset the poor balance that Deeley and Kate had achieved through silence, and pierce their protective anaesthesia. Characteristically, Pinter leaves the true nature of the past events clouded in uncertainty--he himself does not claim to know exactly what...
...fallen on his face in Old Times, but he has mistaken a dead end for a new road. Even more surprisingly, he has written a play that is a bit of a bore, though the bulk of the reviews have been favorable.* It is a three-character play. Deeley (Robert Shaw) and Kate (Mary Ure) are husband and wife. They await the visit of Anna (Rosemary Harris), Kate's friend and roommate of 20 years before. She appears, and the three begin a cat-and-mouse game with memory...
Delphic Questions. Several things are suggested; none is certain. Kate and Anna may have had a lesbian relationship. Deeley may once have known Anna beyond the voyeuristic intimacy of looking up her white thighs at a party. Did Deeley or Kate go with Anna to the film Odd Man Out'? Delphic questions-Delphic answers, scattered clues to nowhere except perhaps the murky recesses of the subconscious mind...