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...Homecoming. Harold Pinter, Marlboro Theater Co. Tues.-Sun, at 8, mat. Sat. and Sun. at 3, $3.50, students...
...Homecoming. Harold Pinter, Marlboro Theater Co. Tues.-Sun. at 8, mat. Sat. and Sun. at 3. $3, students...
...Homecoming. Harold Pinter, Marlboro Theater Co. Tues. Sun. at 8, mat. Sat. and Sun. at 3. $3.50, students...
Only Michael Field, as Teddy, disappoints. His Teddy appears more as the absent-minded professor than the unruffled, pipe-smoking, detached observer Pinter intends. Thus his climactic soliloquy loses some of the force it might have had: "To see, to be able to see. You're just objects, you just move about. I can observe. You're lost in it. I won't be lost in it!" In Field's hands, the soliloquy becomes a childish lament, rather than a strong image of the intellectual detachment that Pinter despises...
...small theater of the Boston Center for the Arts, is a joint effort of playwright, actors and audience. The audience's expectations, the mental gymnastics they undergo in searching for a meaning, are taken into account by the author and find their way into the dialogue of the actors. Pinter defies his audience to break out of their habit of categorization, to upset their "intellectual equilibrium". Do we ever know, he asks, the real motivation of the complex people who live in our "real" world? In fact, do we even know what is "real" and what is not? Audience, actor...