Word: pinters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Glass Booth--A stunning piece of theatre about Nazi and Jewish guilt. It 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 it. At the ROYALE, W. 45th...
...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...
...successes included a muckraking series on the meat-packing industry, a first-rate U.S. TV premiere for Harold Pinter's The Dwarfs, and a colloquy between a group of concerned college students and a melancholy Walter Lippmann. Most important, the lab exposed a not-so-latent racism in U.S. society. There were bitter confrontations between militant blacks and self-righteous whites, stark views of ghetto living conditions, including one film shot and narrated by Gordon Parks, and cutting satire, such as a Negro-slanted aptitude test (sample question: "How long do you cook chitlins?"), By chance...
...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...