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Pause.... Silence.... Pause.... It's Pinter at his best. Now showing at Adams Pool Theater, a capable production of The Birthday Party features splendid acting and, of course, the perennial treat of Pinterian dialogue. The show succeeds in being entertaining and often engrossing--when it doesn't attempt to put a spin on the mystery of the characters' motivations. But when director Schevey fiddles too much with the sense of the unreal intrinsic to Pinter's works, things tend to go awry...
Fortunately, the play does not suffer a death blow: Pinter's words and the way the actors deliver them come to the rescue. Despite such interpretative impositions and the occasional stumble, the production remains compelling and at times quite funny. The Adams Pool should be expecting your visit anytime...
There are also Sacksian spin-offs: Harold Pinter's 1982 play A Kind of Alaska was inspired by Awakenings. Both a Michael Nyman opera and Peter Brook's The Man Who are theatrical versions of Sacks' 1985 best seller The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat; the Brook play opens at the Brooklyn Academy of Music this week...
DIED. DONALD PLEASENCE, 75, stage and screen star; in St.-Paul-de-Vence, France. A chameleon-like character actor who could be as meek as he could be malevolent, he was 40 when he won international notice as the repellent Davies in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker. But his widest audiences were reached in more popular fare like The Great Escape (1963), Halloween (1978) and the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967) in which he played cat-loving archvillain Blofeld...
...Ripley, an opportunistic and amoral gentleman-murderer. DIED. DONALD PLEASENCE, 75, chameleon-like British character actor who could be meek or malevolent in his stage and screen roles; in St.-Paul-de-Vence, France. Pleasence first gained an international reputation as the compellingly repellent Davies in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker. But his widest audiences were reached in more popular fare such as The Great Escape and the James Bond film You Only Live Twice...