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...distinctive play distinctively performed at Lincoln Center is rather like finding a tree in Death Valley. Well, the age of miracles has not passed. The revival of Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party at the 299-seat Forum Theater has been directed with a sure and sensitive hand by Jules Irving, and the actors not only seem to be comfortable with each other, but also to cherish the play. They deliver their lines with an easy fluency that makes the drama itself a spirited pleasure rather than a tortuous skull-puzzler...
...THEATRE Company of Boston seemed almost moribund last year, when a development project took away its home at the Back Bay Theatre and increased debts threatened to swamp it. The Company is back, however and stronger than ever, if its latest production is an indication. Harold Pinter's Landscape and Silence, and Sam Shepard's La Turista make up the most interesting evening of theatre at the Loeb so far this season...
...Silence is a brutal play, the story of a woman and her relationships with two men, each of whom appeals to her in a different way. Pinter leaves questions unanswered. Silence is not as explicitly violent as some of his longer works, but it still allows the audience to wonder about the time factor in the deterioration of the girl's relationship, and about what the motivation is behind it all. His characters have only one dominant characteristic apiece, and are never quite full people. Yet the play achieves, in its twenty five-minute span, a distinctly Pinter effect. Larry...
...Landscape also achieves the Pinter effect: here an old married couple carry on a conversation on two completely different planes, he prating endlessly about his rather boring day at the pub, and the park, and the pond, and she luxuriating in the remembrance of a love affair. Pinter's language is brilliant, and sometimes broad. (When she finishes a private recollection of sex on the beach the day before, while he carries on about the weather, he asks "What did you think of that downfall yester...
...play is laced with laconic, seemingly perfunctory responses such as "Oh, yes," "Ah, well," "Really?" but Director Lindsay Anderson has orchestrated these in a stylized contrapuntal flow that achieves the repetitive impact of similarly sparse dialogue in Pinter and Beckett. Gielgud and Richardson are a beautifully complementary pair, the dandy and the tradesman, Gielgud's elevated clarinet tones v. Richardson's deeper bassoon. When Gielgud narrows his eyes he seems to be glimpsing the Elysian Fields; when Richardson widens his, he seems to be devouring a plate of sausages. Gielgud has a troubled introspective psyche; Richardson tries...