Pinter is in the company of Checkov and Beckett in the degree to which his plays depend on presence—the experience of people remaining in one another’s company. Presence creates an opportunity for violence but in his world the only thing worse than being together would be to be parted. Continue reading Pinter Sketches (Part 2)
This week at ACT’s Harold Pinter Festival, a pair of plays revel in the wordplay and humor Pinter used to adulterate the frustration in his works, and reveal the power of the made-up to reflect reality’s complexities back to us, in an unexpected carom. You’ve heard of the fog of war, well, there’s also a fog of Pinter. No telling if you’ll emerge it from it. Continue reading Harold Pinter and the Power of Fictions
