Harold-Pinter

August Short Fuses — Materia Critica

August 2, 2023
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Theater Review: Wilbury Theatre’s Splendid “Caretaker”

October 3, 2017
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Wilbury Theatre proves that an arts organization can grow while pushing an experimental agenda.

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Fuse Theater Review: The Wilbury Theatre Group Mashes-up Politics

September 19, 2016
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Authoritarianism is at its most chilling, at least in the theater, when everyone, the weak and the strong, takes it for granted.

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Theater Review: Harold Pinter’s “The Homecoming” at the BTG—Stillborn

October 14, 2015
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Harold Pinter’s language can be enigmatic and deliberately bizarre, but it suggests arcs of passion and desire.

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Film Review: 1967’s “Accident” — Romance Among Frigid, Upper-Class Brits

October 1, 2014
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Playwright Harold Pinter is behind the austere screenplay, keeping things puzzling, an often silent script punctured with bursts of cryptic, hostile dialogue.

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Stage Review: Rejuvenating Harold Pinter’s Kinky One-Act, “The Lover”

March 12, 2013
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Whether or not there’s a real lover, or whether all of this is an elaborate fantasy is beside the point. For Harold Pinter, it may all be the same thing.

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Theater Review: A Magnificent “Betrayal”

November 16, 2012
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The Huntington Theatre Company is hosting an exemplary revival of Harold Pinter’s fascinating 1978 work, thanks to the spot-on direction of Maria Aitken.

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Theater Commentary: Menace in Minsk

September 3, 2007
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Given the timidity of so many American theater companies, who seem to reserve their courage for implementing new marketing schemes, reminders of what creative risk is all about serve a useful purpose. Some theater artists around the world face jail when they perform on stage. On August 22, special forces of the Belorussian police raided…

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