Writer: Harold Pinter
Director: Tara Riddell
Cast: Craig Hall, Michelle Langstone and Matt MacDougall
Location: The Basement

Synopsis (from Janet McAllister’s review in The Herald):

Leaving for work, a buttoned-up English banker asks his housewife: “Is your lover coming today?”. Harold Pinter teasingly sets the scene for his caustic 1963 send-up of middle-class sexual mores with his matter-of-fact question. The wife’s polite answer is: “Yes”.

Thoughts on this Production:

This play was great but not quite in the way that I was expecting it to be.

After reading about the wonderfully provocative opening line, I was expecting it to be great because it would provide an insight into a relationship that had introduced at least one other player on at least one occasion. This is, I believe, an intriguing approach to dealing with the monotony that can be part of monogamy.

Unexpectedly, the play did not turn out to be a detailed exploration of the implications of such a decision. What it did turn out to be was both surprising and mesmerising (a word I can’t seem to help using when describing anything Michelle Langstone is in!?). Brilliant story with a great twist.

The production itself was slick. Great set, great costumes and great acting. Just right!