Other Places

Written in the early eighties by Harold Pinter, Other Places marks a time in Pinter’s work where he assertively explores the struggle of defining ourselves, our lives, and our relationships, especially through the penumbra of truth. After writing these plays, Pinter himself did not write again for a number of years.

The evening consists of three short plays: Victoria Station, Family Voices, and A Kind of Alaska. All three plays probe a landscape familiar to Pinter: How memory and story arrange and disarrange our lives, how truth and reality are at best fragile, how identity becomes territory to be fought for in the moment, and how language can still knock language sideways.