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...HOMECOMING, Harold Pinter's study of a family's control and betrayal of each other, represents the Minnesota Theater Company's first foray into the bleak world of the British playwright. Joseph Anthony (Mary, Mary) directs, Lee Richardson and Robin Gammell star, and the play will be performed in repertory through Sept...
...last week's regular Sunday slot "Experiment" also scored high with Pinter People, a show in which Playwright Harold Pinter talked engagingly about his work. Critics have combed Pinter's plays in search of symbols and hidden meanings. Pinter thinks they are wasting their time. "I don't sermonize," he said. "There's nothing I have to say at all, except what I discover about the characters. I don't know any more about people than anybody else does-I just know about the characters I write about...
...Pinter also eavesdrops. His "Experiment" sketches, shown in animation, were ideal eavesdropping situations: a foreman reporting to his jovial boss; a bus queue enlivened by a quarrel; an earnest job applicant getting the works. Thus summarized the sketches sound unexciting, but they completely engaged the viewers' attention, and were beautifully interspersed with filmed shots of London and Londoners-old ladies gossiping, Thames bargemen clowning when the camera was on them, swinging birds in a discotheque...
EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). Animated versions of five short plays are the focal point of a program on the work of English Playwright Harold Pinter. Voices for "The Pinter People" are done by Donald Pleasence, Pinter, his wife Vivien Merchant, Richard Briers, Kathleen Harrison and Dandy Nichols...
...Glass Booth--An exciting piece of theatre about Nazi and Jewish guilt. It all may not mean much, but Donald Pleasence's performance as an Eichman figure and Harold Pinter's direction must be seen. Robert Shaw, the actor, wrote the play. Jack Warden succeeds Mr. Pleasence after this weekend. At the ROYALE, W. 45th...