{"id":370,"date":"2018-09-30T11:45:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T10:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/?p=370"},"modified":"2018-10-04T12:09:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T11:09:23","slug":"pinter-at-the-pinter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/30\/pinter-at-the-pinter\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinter at the Pinter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-372\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anaisleseat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Quentin-Deborne-in-Pinter-One.jpg?resize=300%2C226&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anaisleseat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Quentin-Deborne-in-Pinter-One.jpg?resize=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anaisleseat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Quentin-Deborne-in-Pinter-One.jpg?resize=150%2C113&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anaisleseat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Quentin-Deborne-in-Pinter-One.jpg?resize=199%2C150&amp;ssl=1 199w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anaisleseat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Quentin-Deborne-in-Pinter-One.jpg?w=603&amp;ssl=1 603w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The casting is incredible. In the first two ( of seven ) collections of short plays by Harold Pinter we have Jonjo O&#8217;Neill, Paapa Essiedu, Antony Sher, Kate O&#8217;Flynn, Russell Tovey, David Suchet and ( the voice of ) Michael Gambon, with a massive line-up of big names still to come in the later collections.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-371 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anaisleseat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/6670-1537803180-lovercollectionprod2240918.jpg?resize=228%2C220&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anaisleseat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/6670-1537803180-lovercollectionprod2240918.jpg?resize=300%2C290&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anaisleseat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/6670-1537803180-lovercollectionprod2240918.jpg?resize=150%2C145&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anaisleseat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/6670-1537803180-lovercollectionprod2240918.jpg?resize=155%2C150&amp;ssl=1 155w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anaisleseat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/6670-1537803180-lovercollectionprod2240918.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinteratthepinter.com\/\">Pinter One<\/a> is a pretty grim evening with political oppression and torture as its principal subjects with just a little comedy break in a short sketch featuring an anachronistic Donald Trump. The final play, <em>One For The Road<\/em>, is deeply disturbing and left me wanting to head for the nearest bar for a stiff drink.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-373\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anaisleseat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/David-Suchet-in-Pinter-Two.jpg?resize=292%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anaisleseat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/David-Suchet-in-Pinter-Two.jpg?resize=292%2C300&amp;ssl=1 292w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anaisleseat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/David-Suchet-in-Pinter-Two.jpg?resize=146%2C150&amp;ssl=1 146w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anaisleseat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/David-Suchet-in-Pinter-Two.jpg?w=583&amp;ssl=1 583w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinteratthepinter.com\/\">Pinter Two<\/a> consists of two plays which are much more light-hearted. While I enjoyed them, they did seem rather dated. Both written in the sixties, they present attitudes to sexual relationships which seem like historical curiosities today. I&#8217;m really looking forward to collections three to seven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The casting is incredible. In the first two ( of seven ) collections of short plays by Harold Pinter we have Jonjo O&#8217;Neill, Paapa Essiedu, Antony Sher, Kate O&#8217;Flynn, Russell Tovey, David Suchet and ( the voice of ) Michael Gambon, with a massive line-up of big names still \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/30\/pinter-at-the-pinter\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8WLDF-5Y","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}