Last Planet Theatre takes a shine to Pinter's 'Moonlight' Last Planet Theatre takes a shine to Pinter's 'Moonlight'

From: Oakland Tribune | Date: May 26, 2005| Author: Chad Jones, STAFF WRITER | Copyright information

WITH MOONLIGHT, so they say, comes lunacy. With Harold Pinter's "Moonlight" you can expect the same thing.

Only this kind of lunacy is of the pretentious, theatrical variety in which obscurity and abstraction masquerade as storytelling.

Here in the Bay Area we've seen some wonderful Pinter productions, from "The Homecoming" at Berkeley's Aurora Theatre Company to "Betrayal" at Walnut Creek's Playhouse West and "Old Times" at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater.

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