Word: pinter
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...verse drama that then passed for high seriousness, and of the cobwebbed comic conventions that served only a low commercial cunning. His eloquent partisanship opened the doors not just for a new moral consciousness but for fresh forms of theatrical literacy, like Tom Stoppard's bedazzling overstatements and Harold Pinter's hypnotic understatements. At Tynan's memorial service in 1980, the former turned to the critic's children and said, "For those of us who shared his time, your father was part of the luck...
...Dragon chronicles the decay of a Chinese-American family living in San Francisco's Chinatown. The play could be an interesting look at one of America's ghetto communities, but it turns out to be another recounting of the death of the American dream, combined with elements from Harold Pinter's play The Homecoming...
...WANTS to spend a weekend watching disturbing drama? The week is disturbing enough. For those seeking comic relief, Harold Pinter's Betrayal, an unnerving look at sex and emotion in contemporary society...
...emotionally draining play, not his acting. Kain captures his character perfectly--he is cold and snide and suspicious, and real. His best moment occurs when he tries to force Emma to admit her affair to him. Kain realizes the torturing potential of his lines and brings the darts of Pinter's allusions into clear and cold focus...
...play's direction is, on the whole, intelligent and, unexaggerated. Director Oded Salomy avoids the difficulties posed by the script's Britishisms by setting his version in Boston rather than Pinter's London suburbs. The two lovers meet in a house in Belmont, instead of Wessex, and the two men bring speakers to Harvard and Yale, not Oxford and Cambridge. The flat does not need Hoovering, it needs vacuuming...