The Lover

The Lover

A drama by Harold Pinter

About the play

“Is your lover coming today?” – Richard asks his wife Sarah. He is. Sarah is looking forward to it while Richard goes to work without any concerns. That’s how a similarly profound as captivating drama about two people begins, who love each other, who need each other, yet who ask a lot of each other.
In dizzying ambiguous dialogues and surprisingly emotional twists Richard and Sarah ask and answer the timeless questions about what people in love should, could and can be for each other.

Nobel-prize winner Pinter shows his rather typical style of ambiguity, between seriousness and comedy. Nothing could be closer to reality.

About the author

Harold Pinter was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964) and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others’ works include The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1971), The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981), The Trial (1993) and Sleuth (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television and film productions of his own and others’ works.