The Caretaker
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Opened May 3, 2012
Closes Jun 17, 2012
Opened May 3, 2012
Closes Jun 17, 2012
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Running Time:
2hr. 30min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 30min.
(includes 1 intermission)
Visit the The Caretaker website:
http://www.haroldpinter.org/plays/title_caretaker.shtml
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Jonathan Pryce--two-time Tony and Olivier Award winner (Miss Saigon, Hamlet) and film actor (Brazil, Pirates of the Caribbean)--leads a compelling cast in the first major revival of Harold Pinter's work since his death. This superb production by Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse/Theatre Royal Bath won glowing reviews in London and Liverpool for its penetrating new take on the play--and for Pryce's tour-de-force performance as a repellant, darkly funny, and deeply human Davies.
In The Caretaker, a pair of working-class brothers allows a homeless man to stay in their decrepit London flat, an act of compassion that sparks a cycle of cruelties, delusions, and shifting loyalties in a desperate struggle over territory. Pinter's first great success, this work powerfully displays his sharp intelligence, masterful and spare use of language, and uncompromising exploration of life's menace and comedy.
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With a play as darkly vibrant as Harold Pinter's groundbreaking 1960 work, The Caretaker, now at BAM's Harvey Theater, it can be hard to go wrong. With expert actors Jonathan Pryce, Alan Cox, and Alex Hassell taking control under Christopher Morahan's commanding direction, it's even harder to miss Pinter's desired disorienting mark.
In this pithy work -- full of menace, humor and ambiguity -- the aged and garrulous Bernard Jenkins, also known as Mac Davies (Pryce, bearded, impossibly scruffy and speaking in raping tones), arrives one pre-downpour day at a dingy London walk-up where he has been brought by the tenant, Aston (Cox, deliberately subdued almost throughout).
Once ensco[...]