Tag: Harold Pinter
One for the Road/Victoria Station
Harold Pinter’s refusal to tie his plays to a specific time or place makes them ideal for repeated resuscitation as script-long metaphors for the most recent human rights’ abuses to fill our headlines. Their battering of the mundane into dark and twisted shapes reveals the desperation and casual horror of … Continue Reading One for the Road/Victoria Station
Betrayal
For a play about adultery, Betrayal is pretty light on between-the-sheets action. There’s no cat-and-mouse seduction over dinner or heart-racing quickie among the office filing cabinets; not for Harold Pinter the titillation of playing away. He’s more interested in the vulnerability of infidelity, what’s at stake when you hinge your happiness on … Continue Reading Betrayal
