Word: pinter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). Animated versions of five short plays are the focal point of a program on the work of English Playwright Harold Pinter. Voices for "The Pinter People" are done by Donald Pleasence, Pinter, his wife Vivien Merchant, Richard Briers, Kathleen Harrison and Dandy Nichols...
...Glass Booth--An exciting piece of theatre about Nazi and Jewish guilt. It all may not mean much, but Donald Pleasence's performance as an Eichman figure and Harold Pinter's direction must be seen. Robert Shaw, the actor, wrote the play. Jack Warden succeeds Mr. Pleasence after this weekend. At the ROYALE, W. 45th...
...PARTY and THE BASEMENT are two one-acters by Harold Pinter. In Tea Party, Sisson, a manufacturer of bidets, is thrown into a catatonic state at an office tea party by the ambiguous relationships of his family and his secretary. The Basement is about a man and his girl friend who move in to share an old chum's flat...
Nicholas Mosley, whose work has been adapted for films by Harold Pinter, is a case in point. His novels (Accident, Assassins) are explicitly cinematic. In Impossible Object, he begins with the appropriately open-ended notion that "society used to provide the difficulties that made love exciting and romantic. But in today's world, men and women must now create the difficulties in order to perpetuate love at the level of ecstasy." The trouble is that Mosley's characters, a nameless man and woman who are married to others at the opening, create the dreariest and most passive...
...wheelchair are photographed in a manner heavily reminiscent of Robert Aldrich's What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Like Roman Polanski, Samperi likes to use objects as characters (a necktie, a rifle, a vase), and his consuming interest in role playing and destruction through domination is almost pure Pinter. Unlike Pinter, however, Samperi fails to draw his characters in full proportion. Even if the viewer can accept Alvise's sadistic madness, he can never be sure just what it is in Lea that drives her so insanely to her nephew...