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| Party Time and Mountain Language by Harold Pinter, The Almeida Theatre, 31 October 1991 | ||
| See also Party Time, Channel 4 and Mountain Language, BBC TV | ||
Designer - Mark Thompson Party Time Terry - Peter Howitt Language Young Woman - Nicola Pagett Michael Billington, The Life and Work of Harold Pinter, London: Faber and Faber, 1996, p.331 "With Party Time we all assumed it was set in England and that the club referred to was a particularly trendy place, with a gym and a swimming pool, in west London. Harold was also much more explicit both in terms of character detail and in how he wanted the play done. He gave everyone a background saying, 'You're probably someone in the city,' or, 'You're someone high up in the Civil Service.' He knew how he wanted everything to be, even down to line-readings." Roger Lloyd Pack in Michael Billington, The Life and Work of Harold Pinter, London: Faber and Faber, 1996, p.333. "The evening at the Almeida is filled with questions that are made more complicated by actors playing victims in one play, sadists in the next, questions that are powerfully and beautifully asked." Katherine H. Burkman, 'Party Time and Mountain Language' in F. Gillen and S. Gale (eds.), The Pinter Review, 1991, p.74. "Throughout the proceedings Pinter tugs at our sleeves as insistently as Dusty's brother, who stands against a blinding white light and talks about 'sucking the dark', Which is the only thing he has got." John Gross, The Sunday Telegraph, 10 November 1991. |
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"What [Pinter implies] is that one
of the preconditions of Fascism - a myopic and self-preoccupied
wealthy elite, totally indifferent to the decisions taken in its
name - is becoming dangerously apparent in Britain."
