Other Places
by Harold Pinter

Directed by Robert G. Miller

TWO PERFORMANCES ONLY!
Friday May 12 and Friday May 19, 2006
8 PM
Unison Arts and Learning Center in New Paltz
Unison Arts Partner for MMSC performances - Mayo Consulting Services
Admission: $11 - Unison members and $15 non-members
Call 255-1559 for reservations
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When this triptych of plays by Harold Pinter opened in London in 1982 it was celebrated by critics and audiences alike as an electrifying theatrical event that confirmed once again the author's undisputed place in the forefront of contemporary dramatists. And in 2005, some twenty years later, Harold Pinter was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature, the highest honour available to any writer in the world. In announcing the award, Horace Engdahl, Chairman of the Swedish Academy, said that Pinter was an artist “who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression’s closed rooms.”

"The first two plays in 'Other Places' are strange, comic and fascinating but you would know they were Pinter if you met them in your dreams. However, the third play, 'A Kind of Alaska,' (which strikes me on instant acquaintance as a masterpiece) moves one in a way no work of his has ever done before." The Guardian

"Harold Pinter is writing at the top of his powers...it has taken some of us time to learn Pinter's language. He was never less obscure than here, or more profoundly eloquent about the fragile joy of being alive." The Daily Telegraph
In "A Kind of Alaska" a middle-aged woman wakes up after nearly thirty years passed in a coma induced by sleeping sickness. "Victoria Station" is a hilarious nocturnal dialogue on a car radio between a lost taxi driver and his controller. "Family Voices," originally broadcast as a radio play and subsequently presented in a "platform performance" is a set of parallel monologues in the form of letters which a mother, son and father may have written to each other but never exchanged.

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