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...Caretaker, by Harold Pinter. In a junk-filled London room, two odd brothers and a tramp, memorably played by Donald Pleasence, illuminate the perennial questions of man's isolation from, his need for, and his quirky rejection of, his fellow...
...Caretaker, by Harold Pinter. In a junk-filled London room, two odd brothers and a tramp, memorably played by Donald Pleasence, illuminate the perennial questions of man's isolation from, his need for, and his quirky rejection of, his fellow...
...Caretaker (by Harold Pinter) ups curtain on a West London room that looks like the Pharaoh's tomb of a junkman. There are bales of yellowed newspapers, moldy tennis rackets, scattered bureau drawers, a sink bowl, and a disconnected gas stove graced with a gilt plaster Buddha. There is a lawn mower and a blowtorch. On a rope strung from the leaky roof hangs a paint bucket into which drops of water plunk like the tick-tock of doom. Into this dusty, chilly tomb, English Playwright Pinter deposits three mummies of modern man, who proceed to strip off each...
...papers that will clarify his identity, yet he repeatedly puts it off because his shoes and the weather are not quite right. The younger brother believes that he himself will forge ahead with big plans when his brother is cured. Locked in the cycle of self-concern, as Playwright Pinter subtly emphasizes through individual repetitive speech patterns, no one of the characters can save himself. Each member of this weirdly disparate trio needs the others, but the language of cooperation is not in them, and they niggle with all-too-human stubbornness over whether a window should...
...DRAMAS:, A tramp moves in with two exceedingly odd brothers in Redbriack. Dramatist Harold Pinter's The Caretaker , a hit last year in London (Oct. 4). Playwright Paddy Chayefsky is back again . This time with a contemporary treatment of the Old Testaments Gideon in which a poor farmer becomes a military genius and Fredric March walks the stage as an angel of God (Nov. 9). Broadway audiences will get their first look at much-acclaimed British Actor Paul Scofield in A Man for All Seasons, a study of Sir Thomas More (Nov. 22). Tennessee Williams has now gone...