The Lover (play)

The Lover (play)

"The Lover" is a 1962 play by Harold Pinter. There are three characters in the play, and Pinter slyly leads us to believe they are the wife, the husband and the lover. But the lover who comes to call in the afternoons is really the husband adopting a role. He plays the lover for her: she plays the whore for him. (The third character is an innocent irrelevance - a wicked sleight of hand on Pinter’s part). The play contrasts humdrum domesticity with sexual yearning and explores where the two may lead.

Like Chekhov, some of Pinter's plays allow both a 'serious' and a 'comic' interpretation. "The Lover" has been successfully staged as an ironic comedy on the one hand and as a nervy drama on the other. As is often the case with Pinter, the play probably contains both.----SPANISH VERSION:

In Spain, the writer "Knight R. Crow" adapted ‘The Lover’ for the spanish audience (in Madrid). Crow’s version had an extremely good reception. Crow’s title for the new adaptation is "D4DR The Lover". With this retitling Crow implicates the D4DR gene - which has been correlated with an affinity for thrill-seeking - in the relationship between Shara and Richard, the main characters in the drama. [http://www.nebrija.com/nebrija-medios/src/d4dr.pdf]

External links

* [http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/968178/index.html "Lover, The (1963)"] . British Film Institute "ScreenOnline". (Incl. links to "full synopsis" and special audiovisual features.)


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