See it if you like plays analyzing personal relationships, full of humor
Don't see it if you want exciting action on the stage or if you don't like plays which go backwards in time Read more
See it if u want to see an elegant, brooding, sparsely-staged, expertly-acted, emotionally complex Pinter drama about truth & deception & infidelity.
Don't see it if u prefer ur love-triangle dramas full of mushy sentiment & histrionics (or superhero excessiveness) vs Pinteresque stiff-upper-lip stoicism.
See it if you like Pinter’s plays about relationships. Great acting about adulterous relationships.
Don't see it if if you do not like Pinter plays about people.
See it if You like spare, insightful plays that emphasize great acting and universal themes.
Don't see it if You must have fast pacing or are impatient with slow, deliberate, non-linear story-telling.
See it if you often fantasize of an ideal fictional love triangle with you as a beautiful, if whimsical woman at its center.
Don't see it if You don't like plays that leave things unresolved. Read more
See it if You like flashback plays and you want to see a truly excellent performance by Tom Hiddleston.
Don't see it if You like sustained pauses (i.e. the "Pinter pauses").
See it if a story told quietly with great simplicity and pathos --but fully, emerges like a butterfly from a cocoon
Don't see it if not sure if this is a good date play-- betrayal not a happy topic, but ultimately this is very romantic in a complex way Read more
See it if You like straight forward staging of plays where the focus is on dialogue and character. The cast led by Tom Hiddleston is masterful.
Don't see it if You're not a Pinter fan or you don't like plays, especially one's dealing with infidelity.
"Tom Hiddleston and Charlie Cox are the men fighting over Zawe Ashton in the London revival of Harold Pinter's consummately structured love triangle."
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★★★★★ "The star power certainly works, but it's just one aspect of the brilliance of this last instalment. Lloyd's direction, combined with the depths of the intricacies of the text, is enough to make the show a well-rounded success of its own."
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★★★★★ "Jamie Lloyd’s Tom Hiddleston-starring production of Pinter’s masterpiece is haunting and profound."
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