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what does McCann say that indicates his less ostentatious breakdown
I’m not going up there again
I’m not going up there again - echoes what
Macbeth - after macbeth has killed him he doesn’t want to go back
biillingdon memory, for pinter,
memory, for pinter, is both personal and infectious
billingdon the one character who never looks back
significantly, the one character in the play who never looks back is Petey
what did Irving Waddle say
a banal living-room opens up to the horrors of modern history
billingdon tbp is concerned with
is “concerned with the tension between individual need and the pressures of social conformity”
when billingdon interviewed Pinter he quoted
he quoted proust: Pinter: “He said, ‘Le vrai paradis c’est le paradis qu’on a perdu.’ And I think there’s a lot in that.”
billingdon “Pinter suugests
that it’s the audience that completes the play
context of radio
radio was the source of drama during the war and their theatre. people were expert listeners
billingdon language quote
Language in Pinter’s plays operates on many levels - as a mask, weapon, a source of evasion - but it is always used with distilled accuracy to reveal character
billingdon
memory is what gives his work
memory is what gives his work its strong emotional undertow
billingdon
belief in the omnipresent
belief in the omnipresent power of memory is another of his hallmarks
billingdon
he leaves his audience free to
he leaves his audience free to form its own moral conclusions about the behaviour of his characters
Shakespeare play where what character get tongue cut out
Titus andronicus
Lavinia
Who directed the 2018 tbsp at the harold Pinter theatre
Ian rickson
Lights go out for audience too
