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...Pinter's The Dumb shares the bill with Days in the Loeb's repertory, and I find it to resist making a few between the plays. only two characters, is physically constricted Days takes place in a the Dumb Waiter in a Happy Days oozes philosophy, but it dull. Yet while of Pinter's play are no of profound than . The Dumb Waiter is entertaining...
...first full-length play, Birthday Party. Pinter dwelt of his pet themes, the being dragged from the one's familiar the outside world. Two apparently hired killers, a boarding house, one of its occupants, him away. In The Dumb Pinter focuses on these seemed so all-power-. The Birthday Party, and they too must face the such an alienation...
...killers, Ben and Gus, basement room on from the Organization, for a nameless victim to their only contact with world is a dumb this presumably deuilding, which them messages -- food. This is Pinter's man's isolation of genuine communication the outside world. Only conversation can fill up while Ben and Gus wait. of the play. Ben message from upstairs dumb waiter, and pulls to kill Gus. has traded roles with be victim, has been the security of the the Outside...
...ROOM and A SLIGHT ACHE. Harold Pinter can be relied on to produce unnerving, dramatic and provocative comedies of terror, and he does it again in these two engrossing one-acters...
...ROOM and A SLIGHT ACHE. Harold Pinter can be relied on to produce unnerving, dramatic and provocative comedies of terror, and he does it again in these two engrossing one-acters...