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...PARTY and THE BASEMENT. In any Pinter play, the denouement is total uncertainty. The audience knows less in the end than it thought it knew at the beginning. Even though these two one-acters are lesser Pinter, the playgoer is still held in the author's subtle grip. In Tea Party, a successful manufacturer of bathroom hardware is driven into a catatonic state by the interactions of his wife, her brother and his secretary. The Basement presents two men and a girl in a power struggle that leaves the meaning of the outcome to the mind of the beholder...
...Jewish business tycoon in Manhattan who is uncovered as a Nazi war criminal, then brought to trial in Tel Aviv, where he is uncovered again as a Jewish concentration-camp prisoner from World War II. Even the amazingly agile acting of Donald Pleasence and the sensitive direction of Harold Pinter cannot give substance, theatrical or philosophical, to a spurious script...
...PARTY and THE BASEMENT are a pair of Pinter puzzlers that amuse as well as bemuse. The first playlet deals with a successful businessman whose system short-circuits when all the forces in his life-secretary, wife, children, parents-come together at an office gathering. In the second, two men and a girl try to conquer each other and their living space...
...Caretaker--Pinter, Losey and Donald Pleasance. Through Saturday at the BRATTLE...
...meaning will lie in the eye and mind of the beholder. The mirror is the message. The playgoer will see what he wants to see, which, even in these lesser plays, is Harold Pinter's subtlest hold...