Word: pinter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same calibre of acting and direction is bestowed on the more substantial piece, Harold Pinter's A Slight Ache. This one-acter contains a scriptful of challenging subtleties which the Theatre Company converts into highly entertaining drama. Bronia Stefan and Paul Benedict sculpture their roles flawlessly, David Wheeler paces the play smoothly, while music and an ingeniously designed set accent mood and action effectively...
...plot A Slight Ache is more tense and aggressive than most plays by Pinter, who usually floats his characters toward realization of inner predicaments on a stream of small talk and petty routine. Here, however, the characters slide quickly into a current of self-revelation that sweeps on to a grim transfer of identities at the end. Though Stefan and Benedict wring an ironic humor out of their parts, there is no room in A Slight Ache for the mocking tedium that helps to cushion the themes of The Caretaker and The Dumbwaiter...
...maturity recognizes that although his parents love him, he has no home at all, since their marriage has long been an unsuitable alternative to death. But Gilroy's plain, familial triangle rings with insight and trenchancy. His people live. His ear is as good as Harold Pinter's and, like Pinter, he can put two or three people in a room, start them talking and sustain long successions of commonplaces that never subside in their fascination. Pulling all this burlap to threads, he reweaves it into a fabric that is still coarse but made to last...
...GUEST. In this film version of Harold Pinter's drama The Caretaker, Donald Pleasence stunningly re-creates his stage role as a grubby, bigoted old derelict...
...GUEST. In this film version of Harold Pinter's offbeat drama The Caretaker, Donald Pleasence stunningly re-creates his stage role as a grubby, conniving, bigoted old derelict...