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...Harold Pinter, are strange, funny, terrifying one-acters that enigmatically glimpse the contortions, evasions, and inarticulateness of human beings groping for contact with one another...
...Dumbwaiter and The Collection, by Harold Pinter. These two one-acters combine the comedy and menace of England's most powerfully provocative playwright. Alan Schneider's direction of a splendid cast seismographically records volcanic shifts of meaning...
...Dumbwaiter and The Collection, by Harold Pinter. England's Harold Pinter is a playwrighting terrorist who can conjure up menace with the easy authority of a Hitchcock. He can also pose Pirandellphic conundrums about the nature of truth and reality. Both Pinters are on view in these off-Broadway one-acters, though neither play possesses the emotional depth and prose poetry of The Caretaker, Pinter's last-season parable of the human situation...
...Collection is a distinct novelty for Pinter, a laughing, rather than a frightening, comedy. It is a quadrangular affair...
...wife to retract her "fantastic" story. She does, and the designer concedes that they only talked about going to bed together. At play's end, the husband is asking his wife, "That's the truth . . . isn't it?" She smiles a Mona Lisa smile. The truth, Pinter seems to say, is chemically unstable, shifting from person to person like solid-to-liquid-to-gas, and hence unknowable in any absolute state...