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...directing a play in London called Otherwise Engaged, and that, said Actress Vivien Merchant, is just what her husband, Playwright Harold Pinter, 44, has been for the past several months. Last week Merchant, 46, announced that she was divorcing the author of The Homecoming and The Caretaker after 19 years of marriage. The reason: his alleged love affair with Lady Antonia Fraser, 42, bestselling historian (Mary Queen of Scots) and willful social lioness of London. "It seems he is possessed by Lady Antonia," said Merchant. "She has cast a spell over him. How she can do it with six children...
...Pinter, by contrast, is the only son of a Jewish tailor from London's rugged East End. Darkly handsome with thinning hair, he spent almost a decade as a stage actor, turned to writing in the 1950s, and soon developed into an acclaimed, though sometimes confounding chronicler of English subsociety. He once called cricket, the theater and his family his three main obsessions in life, and for the past 19 years his marriage has been completely free of scandal. Now, apparently, he has become Lady Antonia's most intellectually prestigious admirer, and the one most jealous...
Although Shaw has appeared in over two dozen movies (he was the conned con man in The Sting), the theater is his true territory. A graduate of London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he starred in The Royal Hunt of the Sun and, on Broadway, in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker and Old Times. Pinter returned the compliment by directing The Man in the Glass Booth, a play Shaw adapted from one of his own five novels. For all this, Shaw still resents what he calls "the English snobbishness about the superiority of acting onstage." He likes...
...Land. Harold Pinter's new play at Britain's National Theater in London, explores the paradox between chillingly inflexible ideas and a reality so ephemeral that it may be false, and often is. What turns this grandiose philosophical dilemma into exhilarating theater is the fact that the play is very funny. Under Peter Hall's deft direction, the ominous and reflective pauses are delivered with timing and double takes of Jack Benny standard...
...Pinter people tend to live ineffably in the present and represent nothing out side themselves. Events have no proximate causes, let alone final Aristotelian ones. But in his last play, Old Times, Pinter's characters began to be defined by their uncertain memory of the past. Now the particulars of the present are beginning to be bounded by the dark inevitability of the future, the no man's land of death in life. The new and more abstract world that Britain's leading playwright has begun to explore at 44 is still imperfectly mapped, and he will...