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Except that it is Pinter's funniest play, The Hothouse conforms to all of these characteristics. Written in 1958, it was Pinter's second full-length work. He withheld it from production at that time but, upon rereading it in 1979, decided that it was stageworthy. Pruned by the author but not rewritten, The Hothouse is being given a briskly polished U.S. premiere by the Trinity Square Repertory Company in Providence, R.I. It provides a fascinating embryonic glimpse of the themes, characters and even scenes that occur in such other Pinter plays as The Birthday Party, The Caretaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Primal Pinter | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

...news in an anecdote showing how television "covered" the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden Eden, it is with the lightest of touches. Baker's ability to portray the less palatable sides of American life while keeping readers chuckling at his insights has made him America's funniest social critic; it also makes the Almanac splendid reading...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Back in the Saddle | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

SCTV (NBC). The funniest nights on television, with TV itself the target of repeated maulings by a company of six comic assassins. Their "Sammy Maudlin Show," an excursion into late-night chat and sleaze, has a kind of purgatorial hilarity, like a Friars' roast written by Sartre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Best of 1981: Video | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

...often it works to the play's advantage, making the occasional broad comedy doubly comic. Rogal as Toby Belch may swallow a line or two, but his grimaces in otherwise underplayed scenes spark hilarity, and one outraged cry of "Madam!" to a thoroughly confused Olivia is the show's funniest moment...

Author: By --amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Shakespeare In Wonderland | 11/20/1981 | See Source »

SCTV is the funniest show on the air and maybe the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Messages from Melonville | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

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