The Lover
The Lover is a 1962 one-act play by Harold Pinter (1930-2008). Pinter leads the audience to believe that there are three characters in the play: the wife, the husband and the lover. But the lover who comes to call in the afternoons is revealed to be the husband adopting a role. He plays the lover for her: she plays the whore for him. The play contrasts bourgeois domesticity with sexual yearning.
The play was first presented by Associated-Rediffusion Television, London, 28 March 1963.
The first stage production was at the Arts Theatre, London, 18 September 1963.
Published by Methuen in 1964.
Performance history in South Africa
A Baxter Theatre Production was directed and designed by Ken Leach in a double bille with The Dumb Waiter, opening 25 January 1980, starring Richard Cox and Jacqui Singer.
Translations and adaptations
Sources
Wikipedia [1].
Theatre programme (Baxter), 1980.
Barrow, Brian & Williams-Short, Yvonne (eds.). 1988. Theatre Alive! The Baxter Story 1977-1987
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