My overall impression
Worth seeing? Absolutely. If that’s all you need, just go. The Fringe is about seeing new interpretations and new stagings, new new new, and the fact that this show does something new with something old is worth the ticket by itself.
Flawed? Sure! What isn’t? Pinter is one of the greats, and he doesn’t make it easy on directors or actors, he demands the most of them. Could these two actors be more intense? Absolutely. Could the timing be more spot on? Yeah. Could the tension be ratcheted up quite a bit? Yes. BUT! have I seen anything like this in a long time? No. A combination of inventively intimate setting and a total command of the text and the cast are to be commended from the young team that produced this. It’s a fearless production, bold and opinionated. Few favors are given the audience and much interpretation is left to us, which when dealing with a play as allegorical and absurd as this, is the only way to go.
