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...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...
...HOMECOMING 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 moody production in which even the pauses are eloquent...
...know at what." She declines to discuss The Homecoming or any other Pinter play with outsiders. What she does discuss with her husband is anybody's guess, although it is easy to suspect that their dialogue sounds like something out of a Pinter play. Vivien will ask a simple question, such as "Where shall I put the bookcases?" Whereupon Pinter, she says, "makes a long theatrical pause," and finally announces, "Against the wall." Their common preoccupation is their nine-year-old son Daniel, who has not seen Daddy's plays but has read Homecoming-to what effect...
This summer, Vivien will play Lady Macbeth opposite Paul Scofield at Stratford. Films scarcely interest her. She appeared in Alfie, playing the frumpish, pathetic housewife who gets an abortion, and she has a role in the forthcoming Pinter adaptation of Nicholas Mosley's novel, Accident. But that is the limit of her movie career, because she grew tired of the endless retakes. In one scene in Alfie, Michael Caine is called upon to slap her. "I was hit and hit all day long," she recalls, "until by the end of the afternoon my face was swollen out to here...
...Vivien also admits that directors are troublesome, especially when they try to explain characterization to her. That includes her husband, who once directed Vivien in his television play, The Lovers. "Never again," she says. "It was dreadful. I'm not good with him when I'm under his direction. I'm nasty and feminine...