Pinter's People

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Pinter's People is a compilation of revue sketches or short prose works by Harold Pinter, which was performed for four weeks from 30 January 2007, at the Haymarket Theatre, in London, starring Bill Bailey, Geraldine McNulty, Sally Phillips, and Kevin Eldon.

It included:

  • "Apart From That" (first performed 2006)
  • "The Black and White" (1959)
  • "Last to Go" (1959)
  • "The New World Order" (1991)
  • "Night" (1969)
  • "Precisely" (1983)
  • "Press Conference" (2002)
  • "Request Stop" (1959)
  • "Special Offer" (1959)
  • "Tess" (2000)
  • "That's All" (1959)
  • "That's Your Trouble" (1959)
  • "Trouble in the Works" (1959)
  • "Victoria Station" (1982)

[edit] Critical response

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Charles Spencer, in The Daily Telegraph described the show as "one of the most punishingly unfunny evenings I have ever endured in a theatre."

In The Guardian, Michael Billington commented, "Pinter’s people have been turned into lurching grotesques and the result does a grave disservice both to the writer and comic acting."

The critic for The Times wrote: "Last night I was sickened by some of the coarsest performances I have ever seen in a London playhouse."

The London Sunday papers were more favourable. The Observer talked of "the great pleasures of the evening" and praised the performers.

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The plays of Harold Pinter
Plays : Ashes to Ashes, The Basement, Betrayal, The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, Celebration, The Collection, The Dumb Waiter, The Dwarfs, Family Voices, The Homecoming, The Hothouse, A Kind of Alaska, Landscape, The Lover, Moonlight, Monologue, Mountain Language, A Night Out, Night School, No Man's Land, Old Times, One for the Road, Party Time, Remembrance of Things Past (with Di Trevis), The Room, Silence, A Slight Ache, Tea Party, Victoria Station, Voices (with James Clarke)
Sketches : Apart From That, Applicant, The Black and White, Dialogue for Three, Interview, Last to Go, The New World Order, Night, Precisely, Press Conference, Request Stop, Special Offer, That's All, That's Your Trouble, Trouble in the Works
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