REDISCOVERING PINTER’S WILY PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAPS |
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) Written by Harold Pinter Directed by Caroline Bell-Booth at Basement Theatre, Auckland From 3 Feb 2010 to 13 Feb 2010 Reviewed by Janet McAllister, 8 Feb 2010 originally published in New Zealand Herald |
This version of the send-up of middle-class sexual mores is more than adequate
Leaving for work, a buttoned-up English banker asks his housewife: "Is your lover coming today?" Harold Pinter teasingly sets the scene for his caustic 1963 send-up of middle-class sexual mores with this matter-of-fact question. The wife's polite answer is: "Yes".
While the couple on stage play polite, needling games with each other, The Lover plays sly perspective games with the audience. Who is hurt? Who is just pretending? Metaphorically speaking, who's on top? [More]
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