Apart From That (Harold Pinter)

[Antdoggy25]

I love this so much. so much of what people say is filler

[charliesmakinme]

FUCKIN' GREAT!

[Tonje212]

Has Harold Pinter written "apart from that"? Has he written this sketch or is he just performing it??

[Tonje212]

Has Harold Pinter written "apart from that". Has he written this sketch, or is he just performing it??

[TheLivirus]

To me this scetch is about two men trying to unlayer all politeness, to get down to what the person is actually feeling. Unused to being asked how they REALLY feel, they end up confused, because they are so distant to their deepest self.

I don't know if this makes sence, but whatever.

[GrigolConservative]

An absolute masterpiece!

[BusinessButterfly]

i do this allot lol*

[jum401]

wow!

[Waldvogel91]

This is such a good piece....well...apart from, oh... you know?

[ToonCrafter]

This piece gave me chills.

"Apart from that" delivered in vulnerability on the final line, as pinterguy77 suggests is truly haunting. So much truth is lost in idle banter, particularly in the case of these two ordinary men.

[decidelynot]

Superb. Lovely. Great.

[romanticnihilist]

Perhaps I'm deliberately misunderstanding the sketch, but I prefer to see it more as a joke about the way we misunderstand one another rather than simply a battle of wits between two people.

So often we talk to one another using language that makes sense only in reference to mutually understood facts ("that"), and when we're not sure what these facts are or what they mean to the other person we can find ourselves pretending to know what we're talking about when we don't.

[pinterguy77]

The brilliant comedy here arises directly from Pinter's manipulation of the dramatic reversal. As conversational power bleeds from Gene to Lake, as Gene's attempts to chat with Lake end in Lake's silencing Gene, as Gene's limited pity mutates into his boundless fear, we laugh at how thoroughly and magically Lake has turned the tables on his interlocutor. Revel in Gene's look of vulnerability and confusion, and listen to Pinter literally licking his chops on the last line.

[TheVoid]

This piece also comments on the social falseness of life and the illusions we emit while meeting and chatting to people. Then when somebody asks you a genuine question with real meaning you freeze up or do not respond. You quickly respond to pointless chit chat but when the real meaning is brought into it you are silenced. Sorry if that is what you already meant lol. Very Martin Esslin, Theatre of the absurd.