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...Dumbwaiter and The Collection, by Harold Pinter, are shivery comedies of menace in which murder and infidelity occur (or do they?), and meaning is made mysterious and mystery meaningful...
...Dumbwaiter and The Collection, by Harold Pinter, are shivery comedies of menace in which murder and infidelity occur (or do they?), and meaning is made mysterious and mystery meaningful...
...Dumbwaiter and The Collection, by Harold Pinter, are just past the 100-performance mark, but it is doubtful if any playgoer has fully resolved-or ever will-the enigmatic terrors and ironic absurdities with which the playwright invests his eerily modern one-act parables...
...Dumbwaiter and The Collection are two one-acters by Britain's Harold Pinter, a playwriting terrorist who can conjure up menace with the easy authority of a Hitchcock and pose Pirandellphic conundrums about the nature of truth and reality...
...horrors, but all of them, in strange and curious ways, beat with a quivering sense of present-day life. The wave of off-Broadway excitement and support for such playwrights as Beckett (Krapp's Last Tape) and Genet (The Balcony) made possible the precarious on-Broadway beachheads of Pinter (The Caretaker) and Ionesco (Rhinoceros). Genet, who is less an absurdist than a perversely erotic symbolist poet of the theater, is a perfect example of the kind of playwright Broadway will still not touch, to its considerable loss. His The Blacks, now well over the 700 mark in performances...