Without Walls: Party Time, Channel 4, 17 November 1992
 
 

Producer - Michael Custance
Terry - Peter Howitt

Gavin - Barry Foster
Waiter - Kevin Dignam
Dusty - Cordelia Roche
Melissa - Dorothy Tutin
Charlotte - Nicola Pagett
Liz - Bridget Lynch-Blosse
Fred - Roger Lloyd Pack
Jimmy - Harry Burton

 

"Party Time's transfer from the Almeida Theatre to the screen is a succesful one. An insistent use of close-ups gives the menacing sense of being pulled up by the scruff of the neck. For this production, Pinter wrote in extra characters, and the running time is a little longer than it was on stage. And under his direction - deliberate, stylised, muscularly tight, almost choreographed - the play seemed to take shape like a series of formal dances."

Nigella Lawson, The Times, Weekend, 21 November 1992.

"Pinter1s direction turns eavesdropping into an art"

Michael Davidson, The Jewish Chronicle, 13 November 1992.

 
 
Back to Directing main page
                         
Amazon   Faber & Faber   Slate   Royal National Theatre   Comedie Francaise   Ticketmaster.co.uk   Samuel french
                         
Internal Links: Plays | Films | Biography | Poetry | Politics | Acting | Directing | Publications | Calendar | Links | Forum | Archive | Home
External Links: Faber and Faber | Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk | National Theatre | Comedie-Francaise | Gate Theatre | Ticketmaster | Auteurs.net | Slate | Amnesty
Other Items: The Observer | Letter to the Independent | Depleted Uranium | One For The Road | No Mans Homecoming | New World Order | Degree Speech
 
© Harold Pinter 2000 - 2003 All Rights Reserved | Disclaimer
 
Ticketmaster.co.uk