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...Harold Pinter's "The Room" demands more polish than the Lowell House Drama Group gave it last weekend...
...Pinter's play concerns people who run from life (I'm quite happy where I am....We're not bothered. And nobody bothers us.") and the hells they inhabit ("There's not much light in this place is there, Mrs. Hudd?). Pinter creates his multi-levelled allegory by carefully planning tone and symbol; for example, the impression of utter darkness underlies a banal quarrel about whether there were indeed stars in the sky. Obviously such a play de-instance, their laughter must be nervous as well as amused...
Attempting to furnish non-professional, and not-very-time-consuming theater, the drama workshop cannot polish a play as Pinter's requires. It chose to present this work as a "reading-in-motion"; the actors carried scripts to save themselves the extra work of memorizing...
...DUMBWAITER and THE COLLECTION, by Harold Pinter. Britain's most stimulating young playwright likes to write comedies of terror, and no one writes them better...
...Theatre Company of Boston, not yet four months old and struggling to become established, is presenting an extraordinary production of "The Caretaker." In the intimate theatre at the Hotel Bostonian, author Harold Pinter, director David Wheeler, and the cast of three, transpose the problem--long a scientific enigma--of the interaction of three bodies into human terms with such brilliance that one perceives a solution: the problem is impossible...