Pinter 3: Landscape / A Kind of Alaska / Monologue
Harold Pinter Theatre · 25 OCT - 08 DEC
The Jamie Lloyd Company presents a complete season of Harold Pinter's one-act plays to celebrate the legacy of the Nobel Prize-winning British writer on the 10th anniversary of his death.
Overview
Landscape and A Kind of Alaska, directed by Jamie Lloyd, are spellbinding evocations of loneliness, isolation and the strange mists of time.
Landscape is a minimalist marvel: a woman is locked in a beautiful memory and her husband demands to be heard. In A Kind of Alaska, Deborah awakes from a twenty-nine-year sleep and is suspended between the conscious and unconscious worlds.
Lee Evans will perform the poignant Monologue and a selection of Pinter’s most hilarious comedy sketches, including the sketch Apart From That, with Meera Syal.
Close friend and long-term Pinter collaborator, Penelope Wilton will make 12 special guest appearances from 19 November, performing the witty monologue Tess, written for her by Pinter.
Critic reviews
Greig shows nothing is now beyond her range while Evans’s physical comedy is a delight as this short-drama season highlights Pinter’s fascination with marital solitude
A magnificently performed collection of Pinter's memory plays
You can see why actors love Pinter. He gives them such a chance to shine.
Surprisingly joyous. I can't wait for the next batch of shows
Lee Evans serves up an extraordinary array of precisely observed mannerisms in a monologue where his character duels with an invisible opponent
Jamie Lloyd’s enterprising “Pinter at the Pinter” season hits a real high with Pinter Three
Grieg is particularly good – and cast totally against type – as the not-all-there Beth, and she is absolutely magnificent in the concluding ‘A Kind of Alaska’
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