Pinter’s Briefs

Harold & the Boys / Vancouver, BC

By: Harold Pinter Posted: 4:14 PM CDT Sunday, Jul. 19, 2009

This is Harold Pinter at his best — almost-perfectly rendered little vignettes of absurdity and menace that are short and funny enough that you don’t get too depressed.

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This is Harold Pinter at his best — almost-perfectly rendered little vignettes of absurdity and menace that are short and funny enough that you don’t get too depressed.

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This is Harold Pinter at his best — almost-perfectly rendered little vignettes of absurdity and menace that are short and funny enough that you don’t get too depressed.

Three Vancouver-based actors cover several mini one-acts by the British postwar playwright, including the tale of an exasperated taxi dispatcher who can’t cope with a dopey driver and a two-hander about some old biddies nursing their soup, talking about nothing.

The British cast — Simon Webb, Kevin Williamson and Anthony Ingram — deliver deft and detailed performances that bring Pinter’s naturalistic dialogue to life. The staging is spartan and smart, emphasizing the space between characters. It’s not super-edgy or wildly innovative, but it’s lovely bits of Pinter done expertly.

— Mary Agnes Welch

From the official Fringe Festival program:

Kevin Williamson, Simon Webb and Anthony F. Ingram perform 5 plays by master playwright Harold Pinter – "Trouble In The Works", "Last To Go" & "The Black and White" from 1959, "Victoria Station" from 1982 and "The New World Order" from 1991.

"A heart-stopper; hilarious and crushing in equal measures." – Globe and Mail

"Riotously funny." – Vancouver Sun