The Collection & A Kind of Alaska: Two Plays By Harold Pinter
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Opened Nov 21, 2010
Closed Dec 19, 2010
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Atlantic returns to the work of Tony Award® and Nobel Prize winning playwright Harold Pinter with The Collection & A Kind of Alaska: Two Plays By Harold Pinter. Although the plays are separated chronologically by many years, both are steeped in the author's signature humor, mystery and psychological tension. In The Collection (1961), a 4:00am phone call and a surprise visitor set off a series of conversations about potential infidelities among two couples. A middle-aged woman who has been asleep in a hospital room awakens after thirty years and must reorient herself to a greatly changed world in A Kind of Alaska (1982), which was inspired by the work of Oliver Sacks in his seminal book, Awakenings.
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
What are other members saying?
RE:Simply wonderful!
Dont miss these short Pinter plays. Oh, what a great night of TRUE theater. Nobody does it better than Harold Pinter.
Reviewed by al10029
on Sunday, Dec 12th, 2010
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Harold Pinter's double bill
The Collection and A Kind of Alaska, now being presented by the Atlantic Theater Company at the East 13th Street Theatre, allows New York theatergoers another chance to relish in the work of one of the world's greatest playwrights, albeit with somewhat mixed results.
In The Collection, the taunting 1961 playlet which serves as the evening's curtain-raiser, James (Darren Pettie), husband to Stella (Rebecca Henderson), forces a meeting with Bill (Matt McGrath), housemate to Harry (Larry Bryggman) to accuse him of an affair with Stella. That's apparently what she told James, and they're the supposed facts to which Bill admits.
But who knows where the truth lies?[...]