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Laconic to the point of taciturnity, Playwright Gilroy seems to have performed a sort of Pinterectomy on his dialogue without Pinter's flair for making silence crackle. The cast underplays to the point of emotional invisibility, a particular waste in the case of Irene Papas. There are 2,500 years of tragic tradition structured in her Greek face, and as her film Electra showed, she could steal the fire of Olympus and set Broadway ablaze...
...HOMECOMING, by Harold Pinter, pits the strength of five men v. the power of one woman. Who conquers and exploits whom is the question. The answer depends on each man's interpretation. The Royal Shakespeare Company's production, directed by Peter Hall, is properly tense and intense...
...movies, plays or poetry readings for conventional sermons. St. Clement's Episcopal Church, on the fringe of Broadway in Manhattan, frequently presents dramatic readings and even short playlets in place of sermons by its vicar, Father Eugene A. Monick. One Sunday, parishioners acted out a scene from Harold Pinter's The Caretaker. At another service, they put on a sketch about parish life, improbably called The Dynamics of Inter-Cultural Encounter, or How I Split My Scene, Dropped My Frock, Blew My Cool and Found...
...HOMECOMING is both realistic and surreal, on a mythic yet natural plane, and most unconventionally conventional. While defying the norms of family and society, this domestic drama by British Playwright Harold Pinter is an exercise in instinctual logic. Vivien Merchant and Paul Rogers lead a perfect cast in Peter Hall's pluperfect production...
...HOMECOM'NG is the season's most tantalizing drama, by Harold Pinter, who prods and arouses with the twin-tined fork of shock and humor. Vivien Merchant leads the Royal Shakespeare Company through a harmonious, moody production in which even the pauses and silences are eloquent...