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...amazing thing is he writes for television. Admittedly the BBC, but nevertheless television. It hasn't harmed Harold Pinter. The techniques he uses in TV plays--single sets, detailed direction in the text, careful use of props a camera can highlight, dialogue better suited to facial expression and subtle bodily movement than to sweeping action--have carried over into his longer plays like The Caretaker to produce a fascinating televisionary theatre...
...Pinter explores how the petty ambitions of each are thwarted by the fumbled intentions of the others. Davies, the old man, wants to walk across London to pick up the papers he left with a friend . . . twenty years before. Aston, the older brother and a former mental patient, wants to build a tool shed. Mick wants to make the building into handsome, profitable flats. None of the three succeed. The old man doesn't get along and is turned...
...runs the joint, and a local society editor (Zoe Caldwell), who seems to have escaped from a flour barrel. Miss Caldwell is an auspicious new acting presence on Broadway. But the play is a rubber-dagger stab at theater of the absurd that lacks lonesco's lunacy or Pinter's menace. It seems to have come less from Williams' pen than from his penwiper...
...Incident at Vichy. Musicals? Hello, Dolly! has Mary Martin, no less. Chekhov? Sir John Gielgud and Claire Bloom were great in Ivanov. There was also a new Hamlet, starring a 24-year-old flash named David Warner. Also plays by two of Britain's most important newcomers, Harold Pinter and John Arden. And Sir Michael Redgrave and Ingrid Bergman in Turgenev's A Month in the Country. Also an updated satirical revue, Beyond the Fringe. Not to forget Sir Laurence Olivier in Congreve's Love for Love, as well as Alec McCowan and Siobhan McKenna...
...Back in Anger" said an ex-pastry cook named Arnold Wesker, "I knew it could happen. I went home and wrote my first play in six weeks." The thunder of Osborne summoned not only Wesker (Roots, Chips with Everything) but a whole cloudburst of writers turned playwrights. Among them: Pinter (The Caretaker), Arden (Live Like Pigs), Ann Jellicoe (The Knack), Brendan. Behan (The Hostage) and Shelagh Delaney (A Taste of Honey). These new dramatists led their audiences out of the drawing room and into the kitchen for a close, painful view of the cynical, life-hungry, postwar generation...