The Caretaker

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Harold Pinter writes his plays with precise requirements as to how they're to be directed and acted. He has such a pronounced sense of what he wants done that, in his many stage directions, he differentiates between "pause," "slight pause," "silence," and "long silence." Not even Samuel Beckett, another dramatist with a reputation for performance strictures, is so specific. Indeed, Pinter seems to populate his works only with people who continually pause and observe silences. When he's at his best, he convinces us that this is an accurate depiction of human communication (or lack of communication) in the real world.

It would seem that Pinter's pieces -- more than dramas by other playwri[...]