Like The Birthday Party this is again a filmed play but simply has more energy, structure, and life to it. Mart Crowley's work is as significant but it is more compelling than Pinter, to me at any rate. The cast repeat their stage performances. There's a lot of standing around and watching someone else act but there is variance in the character types - the married couple, the camp one, the dumb hustler, etc. Much of it became cliche/tropes, and this had to struggle under the burden of being "the gay play" for a long time, but it was written from a place of truth and has aged well.
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