For six months, the Harold Pinter Theater has been given over to a unique sequence of Pinter one-acts, presented under the curatorial eye of Jamie Lloyd, who directed some of these lesser-known plays himself. The results tested the receptiveness of theatergoers in the West End, not exactly a climate for classy esoterica. And lest anyone assume that casting the movie star Tom Hiddleston in a familiar Pinter title was a cynical cash grab, think again. Jerry and Emma meet regularly, in secret, at a North London apartment. Years after the play’s premiere at the National Theater, it became clear that Pinter based the play on his own affair with the English broadcaster Joan Bakewell.

Source: New York Times March 28, 2019 09:45 UTC