Sheridan Morley (review date 1 April 2000)
SOURCE: Morley, Sheridan. “Pinter Double.” Spectator 284, no. 8956 (1 April 2000): 65-6.
[In the following review of Pinter's The Room and Celebration, produced as a double-bill, Morley observes that both plays, like much of Pinter's work, explore themes of sexual jealousy, nameless terrors, and violence. Morley asserts that Celebration is Pinter's “funniest script in years.”]
It is not often you get to see the first and the most recent plays by a major dramatist on the same...
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©2004 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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