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...TIMES by Harold Pinter...
...Times, Harold Pinter's 1971 play, is perhaps his most gnomic meditation on this, his most preoccupying theme. A woman named Anna (Jane Alexander) comes to visit her roommate of 20 years before. She discovers (if she did not already know) that Kate (Marsha Mason) is married to a man named Deeley (Anthony Hopkins), with whom Anna had some ambiguous contact. Anna has a taste for hot climates, hard angles and social dominance. Kate prefers the steam from her long baths, or a heavy rain to blur reality...
...Director Kenneth Frankel's austere revival, his three stars play Pinter's witty melodies and ironic rhythms with graceful professionalism. If they soft-pedal the play's bass line of sexual tension, one is grateful for a clear rendering of the text. It encourages one to conjure with the work of postmodernism's most hypnotic theatrical voice...
HALL FOR "INEFFICIENCY." Until this year, Hall's staff of associate directors had remained faithful. (Miller and Blakemore, who defected from the National in the mid-'70s, were both holdovers from the reign of Olivier, Hall's predecessor.) Then Pinter, whose plays Hall had been directing since 1962, felt abandoned when Hall left for Bayreuth just as Pinter was staging a troubled production of Giraudoux's The Trojan War Will Not Take Place at the National. Without alerting Hall in advance, Pinter resigned as an associate director of the theater. Last week Pinter told TIME...
...role. He enjoys the artistic adventure of rehearsing: "It's really why I do this job." But there is another pleasure: confiding to the diary-and now to any Briton with ?12.95 to spend-his colleagues' amorous intrigues (but rarely his own). In 1975 he reports that Pinter is "wildly and happily in love" with Lady Antonia Fraser while still married to Actress Vivien Merchant. In an irate letter, Pinter denounced Hall for relating "matters of the utmost privacy." As for Hall, he says regretfully: "We had a marvelous collaboration. Now there is no hope of getting...