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...slight shudder. "Once I've done something, it doesn't really have any interest for me anymore." He likes movies, but he loves the stage and is even now on the lookout for a good play. At the moment Alan Bennett (The Old Country) is his favorite English playwright; David Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross), his favorite American. Between roles, Sir Alec and his wife Merula play country folk in a home 55 miles southwest of London, near Winchester. "Farmland round and about," he says. "It's a very simple house, and it's always untidy, always dusty and ill cared...
...play is about the relationship between a playwright and his assistant over a 13-year period. There is nothing inherently funny about this situation, but a sequence of unusual conversations between the two characters, sprinkled with a few funny one-liners and the presence of several witty but incidental characters, make the play amusing, at least for the first...
...playwright-within-the-play Jason Carmichael (David Fisher), an arrogant but talented man, marries a someone (Eliza Gleason) whom he doesn't really love. Then Jason meets Phoebe Craddock (Mira Sorvina), a young woman who idolizes him. But Jason doesn't realize that Phoebe loves him and treats her merely as a junior partner in their writing endeavors--although he obviously likes her presence...
WHEN FRENCH playwright Jean Genet wrote The Balcony he noted that the best way to portray true good in the world was to force his audiences to confront true evil. Fake judges, generals, and bishops parade through a whorehouse, living out their petty hypocrisies and in the process exposing the so-called justice of the establishment as so many lies...
Adapting Russell Hoban's novel, Playwright Harold Pinter creates his own kind of suspense by setting up one trite movie situation after another, then making us wonder how he is going to avoid cliche resolutions. It is the same with his characters. They come to life as familiar figures, but they take on what one suspects will be an infinite life in memory because of their awkward singularity. Jackson and Kingsley are great somber comedians under John Irvin's quietly assured, tactfully ironic direction. Amazing how the unspoken can resonate, astonishing how much can be implied with a small, deft...