Word: junks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Caretaker, by Harold Pinter. One of England's most gifted young playwrights plants two brothers and a scurvy, aging tramp in a junk-cluttered room, where they become entwined in an ambiguous relationship of spite, pride, dependence and rejection that richly epitomizes the wayward condition...
...Caretaker, by Harold Pinter. In a junk-filled London room, two odd brothers and a tramp, memorably played by Donald Pleasence, illuminate the perennial questions of man's isolation from, his need for, and his quirky rejection of, his fellow...
...sick comedy that merely manages to be unwell. A bizarre trio of crooks consisting of a satanic professor with one lung (Donald Harron), a roly-poly jester (Stubby Kaye), and a bunny (Brenda Vaccaro) who looks nude in clothes, decide to insure a zanily beatific spinster junk collector named Opal Kronkie (Eileen Heckart) for $30,000, and then murder her for the insurance. The would-be killers drop an entire ceiling on Opal's head, try to run her down in a car, and finally soak her junk-cluttered room in kerosene, but Opal is not obliterated, or even...
...Caretaker, by Harold Pinter. In a junk-filled London room, two odd brothers and a tramp, memorably played by Donald Pleasence, illuminate the perennial questions of man's isolation from, his need for, and his quirky rejection of, his fellow...
Psychologically, each of the characters is paralyzed by failures of will and nerve, and the junk-cluttered room reflects that impasse. Yet, each of them nurses a delusionary hope that if he can take a certain first step in self-therapy, he can "get this place going," as the tramp caretaker puts it. The elder brother believes that his salvation lies in building a workshop in the yard, but he is finicky about using only "good wood," and he gets to a hardware store so belatedly that the jig saw he needs is "gone." The tramp plans to make...