Word: pinters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PARTY and THE BASEMENT. In all Harold Pinter plays the surface is never the substance, and the meaning lies in the eye and mind of the beholder. In Tea Party, a middle-aged manufacturer of bidets is pushed into what may be his death throes by the interactions of his secretary, his wife and his wife's brother. The Basement deals with the relations of two men and a girl who share a basement flat...
...PARTY and THE BASEMENT. Harold Pinter provokes a devilishly clever sort of participatory theater in which the playgoer is lured into playing detective without any clues. In Tea Party, a middle-aged manufacturer of bidets is driven into a catatonic state by the interactions of his secretary, his wife and her brother. The Basement has two old friends vying for the affections of a girl with whom they share a basement flat...
...PARTY and THE BASEMENT. Harold Pinter provokes a devilishly clever sort of participatory theater in which the playgoer is lured into playing detective without any clues. In Tea Party, a middle-aged manufacturer of bidets is driven into a catatonic state by the interactions of his secretary, his wife and her brother. The Basement has two old friends vying for the affections of a girl with whom they share a basement flat...
...Party and The Basement--Harold Pinter's latest and up to snuff. A capable cast includes Valerie French. At the EASTSIDE PLAYHOUSE, E. 74th...
...play them so fast we lose track. Back and forth, one by one every character confronts every other and asks point-blank "Why didn't you love me?" And one by one, tediously, every character replies in the best spirit of medieval modern psychoanalysis. It's as if some Pinter couple, perverted, got its kicks from holding its quarrels in medieval costumes. "You led too many civil wars against me" chuckles Henry opening a beer. "And damn near won the last one!" quips Eleanor in her curler...