Pinter on reality

[redwoodpecker]

"Hundreds of thousands of deaths took place throughout these countries. Did they take place? And are they in all cases attributable to US foreign policy? The answer is yes they did take place and they are attributable to American foreign policy. But you wouldn’t know it.

It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it

Comments

[falloutgurl666]

i just finished studying one of pinter's plays at school...
this has just risen my opinion of him higher than it was before
nice stuff

[redwoodpecker]

I haven't actually read any of his plays, John Pilger quoted him in a documentary so I've been reading his quotes and he is a brilliant man. He definitely knows what's actually going on in the world, which is still far too great a rarity.

Do you have a play you would recommend I check out?

[falloutgurl666]

well i've only read the Dumb Waiter which was good and a very interesting commentary on society, but i must say i preferred the two other absurdist plays we studied.
though i think the Pinter play was the most political of the three of them, come to think of it...

[redwoodpecker]

I'll take a look at it, I've heard the caretaker is really good and I want to check that out as well.