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...LOVER, by Harold Pinter, and PLAY, by Samuel Beckett. Pinter's proper couple feast on make-believe adultery, wrapped in mystery and mockery. Beckett's bodyless trio discusses the pains and reveals the banalities of infidelity...
With only a smidgen of a plot to drive them, this unholy trio thrashes out a sometimes funny, sometimes corrosive drama based on Harold Pinter's London and Broadway stage success, The Caretaker. It is still morbidly fascinating to watch. And what made the play important remains perfectly clear: dialogue so richly human that every vile syllable sounds like a cry for help, plus superb acting of their original roles by Pleasence, Shaw and Bates...
...would excavate the tells of childhood had better dig alone. Sheikie, "the famous child toe-dancer" of St. Agatha's, has degenerated into Sheila Artworth, a real estate broker's wife whose hair is now bluer than her blood. Mumbo, the skinny, frizzy-headed intellectual of the trio, has ballooned into Miss Clare Burkin-Jones, the burly, beturbaned boss of a London gift shop. But these distortions are nothing compared with the heightened powers of bitchery the little girls have acquired...
With the Wall closed, East Berliners turned quickly to the old, familiar escape techniques they had used before Christmas. A family of five, whose apartment abutted the Wall, skidded down a rope dangling from a bedroom window. The same night, a trio of dusty girls popped into the basement of a West Berlin apartment after a harrowing scramble through a 450-ft. tunnel whose mouth lay in an East Berlin coal-yard. But border guards soon found the tunnel and blasted it shut...
...When the trio finally handed Dewey two $1 bills, he allegedly refused to give them their change. A scuffle ensued, one of the students grabbed one of the bills back, and they left the cab. A few hours later they were arrested by Jackson police on Dewey's charge that he had been robbed...