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Theatre: Pitch-perfect Pinter
Pinter Seven: A Slight Ache and The Dumb Waiter
Harold Pinter Theatre, London
Star performances: Martin Freeman (left) and Danny Dyer
[Marc Brenner]
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
THIS season of Pinter’s short plays and monologues comes to a glorious finale with Pinter Seven.
The programme consists of two old favourites, written in the ’50s.
But where you might expect a pair of period pieces lovingly restored for a modern audience, you are treated to an evening of theatre at the top of its game.
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