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"A four-man cast of remarkable perception, strength, and delicacy ... Max Wright’s performance is magnificently layered, deeply humane ... his Spooner is funny, desperate, and real.”
NO MAN'S LAND
by Harold Pinter
directed by David Wheeler
May 12 - June 10, 2007 |
Spooner and Hirst are two aging writers, locked in the no man's land of late middle age. They meet on Hampstead Heath and return to Hirst's home for a late-night session of witty banter, sinister power games, and the worship of alcohol. Harold Pinter's elegant, haunting play is part mystery drama, part homage to the ghosts of the past and the fiction of memory. David Wheeler returns to the A.R.T. to direct this tragicomic gem from Britain's Nobel Prize-winning playwright.
| Hirst | ... Paul Benedict |
| Spooner | ... Max Wright |
| Foster | ... Henry David Clarke |
| Briggs | ... Lewis D. Wheeler |
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| set design | ... J. Michael Griggs |
| costume design | ... David Reynoso |
| lighting design | ... Kenneth Helvig |
| sound design | ... David Remedios |
Cast pictured clockwise from upper right. All photos: T. Charles Erickson.
Related event: Harold Pinter: Stage to Screen at the Harvard Film Archive, May 13-30.
 
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An aging writer named Hirst finds himself in "the last lap of a race" he has "long forgotten to run." He brings home Spooner, a down-at-heel poet he has encountered in a pub. The older men reminisce about their pasts, which may or may not intersect. Another pair of men burst in and claim to be Hirst's young servants; but who is really the master here? Who is trapped and who is free? The booze flows, the facts get slippery, and nothing is exactly what it seems. Hirst is caught between the peril of old age and a youth that may have been a lie, in a "no man's land ... forever silent." |
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| Director’s Sponsor Joel and Lisa Alvord |
Production Sponsor Paul and Katie Buttenwieser |
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This page updated June 11, 2007 |
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