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Pinter always raises more questions than he answers, and sometimes the questions are unanswerable. Baffling the intellect while it stirs the instincts, The Homecoming operates in the realm of myth. Myth frequently proclaims the dark primacy of what D. H. Lawrence called "the blood consciousness" over the light of reason, clearly one of Pinter's intentions in this play. The dead mother plays a significant role in The Homecoming: she, like Ruth, was something of a slut. Thus the Oedipal shift of sexual power that takes place results in the overthrow of the two father figures...
...prefer working in plays by contemporary playwrights. My initial falling in love with a play is an emotional reaction. If I'm then going to make out of the play a performance which has any stature or substance, then I will have to apply to it whatever intellect I possess...
STUDENT: Money? Power? Intellect? Charm...
...philosopher king of 20th century playwrights, an existentialist before Sartre and Camus, an absurdist before Beckett and lonesco. Though written in 1918, this intellectual whodunit has scarcely a grey line in its script, and the APA troupe has faithfully obeyed the playwright's commandment: "To convert the intellect into passion...
...happily reversed if it is the recipient who is struggling to prove his intellectual status-then the book becomes a compliment, where Valley of the Dolls would have been an insult. This is particularly true with very good-looking girls, who always want to be taken seriously for their intellect (plain girls must never be given books, except possibly love poems...