at Classic Stage Company
136 E. 13th St.
Atlantic eagerly returns to the work of Harold Pinter, several seasons after its acclaimed production of his first andlast plays, The Room and Celebration. Here again, the plays are separated chronologically by twenty years; both,however, are steeped in the author’s signature humor, mystery and psychological tension.
In The Collection (1962),a four am phone call and a surprise visitor set off a series of conversations about potential infidelities among twocouples. And a middle-aged woman who has been asleep in a hospital room awakens after thirty years and mustreorient herself to a greatly changed world in A Kind of Alaska (1982), which was inspired by the work of OliverSacks in his seminal book, Awakenings.
