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...Room a nondescript couple named Hudd have recently moved into a ramshackle single room. Mrs. Hudd gabbles cheerfully about how cosy and secluded it is: "We don't bother anybody . . . We keep ourselves to ourselves." Preferring not to know the identity of her neighbors, she huddles jealously in her stranded little apartment. Her husband stonily pores over a Classics Illustrated while she speaks...
...Hudds' haven cracks slightly when Mr. Kidd, their senile landlord, half-remembers that their apartment used to be his bedroom. Then a man and his wife looking for lodging threaten to rent the Hudds' room; and a blind Negro who had been living in the cellar asks Mrs. Hudd to come back to a mysterious unsavory past, to her home. Like The Dumbwaiter, the play ends with a grotesque shock...
Pinter's play concerns people who run from life (I'm quite happy where I am....We're not bothered. And nobody bothers us.") and the hells they inhabit ("There's not much light in this place is there, Mrs. Hudd?). Pinter creates his multi-levelled allegory by carefully planning tone and symbol; for example, the impression of utter darkness underlies a banal quarrel about whether there were indeed stars in the sky. Obviously such a play de-instance, their laughter must be nervous as well as amused...
...Crampton-Clandon. Miss Inescort was so overshadowed by Miss Brook, as her daughter, that the moral force of her character never became quite so overwhelming as it should have. Forbes' portrayal of the blustering father was understanding, but at times slightly forced. In smaller character parts Walter Hudd was entertainly fusty as McComas, and William Devlin added a real touch to the last act with his Jovian portrayal of the positive ("You will, you don't think you will, but you will") Mr. Bohun. Scott Douglas played a nice maid...
First on board to greet Mackenzie King were Britain's black-hatted, dapper Deputy Under Secretary for the Dominions Sir John Stephenson, and tall Frederic Hudd, Canada's Acting High Commissioner in Britain. Behind them came Southampton civic dignitaries, led by the wife of the city's ailing Lord Mayor, Job Charles Dyas. Primly the Lady Mayoress recited a prepared speech of thanks for clothing that Canada had sent to the city during the blitz...