Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

This will end badly | 15 November 2018

Plus: a Don Quixote for the under-tens at the Garrick Theatre

issue 17 November 2018

Pinter Three appeals to opposite poles of the play-going spectrum. The birdbrains like me will enjoy the music-hall sketches while the goatee-strokers will have fun pretending that Pinter’s deadly earnest memory plays are worth seeing. Watching the first piece, Landscape, is like receiving a jigsaw puzzle in instalments. Two characters, Duff and Beth, speak to us without acknowledging each other.

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