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...HOMECOMING springs traps and surprises on its audience, making the play's validity, intent and meaning the controversy of the season. The Royal Shakespeare Company gives Harold Pinter's drama a spellbinding presentation...
...from the season before. Among the high spots were: one major S.R.O. smash, the musical Cabaret; two comedy clicks, Robert Anderson's You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running and Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy; one important drama, Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, which turned a profit only because of a movie sale; and the settling in, for the first time in 28 years, of a first-rate rep company...
...HOMECOMING springs traps and surprises on its audience, catching it up in the controversy of the season as to its validity, intent and meaning. The Royal Shakespeare Company gives Harold Pinter's drama a spellbinding presentation...
...fate is in the hands of three of her elders: the chief government security officer, her father and his secretary, who is also his mistress. The latter is a disturbing woman- passive, manipulative, all things to the weaknesses of all men-seemingly a sister of the wife in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming. It is no accident that Pinter adapted Mosley's earlier novel for the movies. For both writers, ambiguity is truth itself. And for Mosley's characters, a mere problem of survival is too simple. The reader who follows the course of Assassins...
ACCIDENT. Harold Pinter wrote the screenplay, and Joseph Losey directed this glacial dissection of human passion against the background of an Oxonian summer...