Harold Pinter Festival - "The Lover" and "Night"

Marking its seventh season, Stanford Summer Theater will host a festival of Harold Pinter plays, film screenings, and a community symposium on Pinter's work.

THE LOVER and NIGHT

Directed by Jeffrey Bihr, with Kay Kostopoulos and Rush Rehm; opens Thursday, July 14 and runs through August 7. Performances Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:00 p.m.; Sundays at 7:00 p.m.; special matinee August 6 at 2:00 p.m.; at Pigott Theater.

THE LOVER

Premiering in 1963, The Lover explores the sizzling interplay between reality and fantasy in the lives of a lively married couple. Passion and desire, sound and silence, language and its undertow wittily expose the games men and women play with one another. SST offers the Bay Area's first professional production of this Pinter classic in 30 years.

NIGHT

Written in 1969, an older couple think back over their lives, remembering--and forgetting--the signal events in their erotic past. A moving, edgy serenade on lost time, Pinter's curtain raiser unveils the forces at work on our memories, and how they affect our present encounters.

(See SST website for full schedule of events and ticket information.)