Word: pinter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fate is in the hands of three of her elders: the chief government security officer, her father and his secretary, who is also his mistress. The latter is a disturbing woman- passive, manipulative, all things to the weaknesses of all men-seemingly a sister of the wife in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming. It is no accident that Pinter adapted Mosley's earlier novel for the movies. For both writers, ambiguity is truth itself. And for Mosley's characters, a mere problem of survival is too simple. The reader who follows the course of Assassins...
...HOMECOMING is the winner of this year's New York Drama Critics' Circle Award and the Tony. Any resemblance between the characters in Harold Pinter's absorbing drama and the family next door is purely metaphysical...
ACCIDENT. Harold Pinter wrote the screenplay, and Joseph Losey directed this glacial dissection of human passion against the background of an Oxonian summer...
...HOMECOMING. In his play about the prodigal family of a visiting son, Harold Pinter uses words as the sea uses waves, catching his audience up in an inexorable rhythm, washing over them with sound, bringing forth currents and undercurrents of meaning...
ACCIDENT. The scene is Oxford. The story involves a wan don (Dirk Bogarde) who tries to be a Don Juan with a nubile undergraduate while his wife (Vivian Merchant) is pregnant. Harold Pinter wrote the cryptic, skeletal dialogue, Joseph Losey directed...