A Pinter Duet:
The Lover & Ashes to Ashes
by Harold Pinter
directed by Rick Lombardo**

John Herndon, scenic artist and properties design
Chip Schoonmaker***, costume design
Jamie Whoolery, lighting design
Rick Lombardo, sound design
Andrea T. Healy*, stage manager

Cast (in alphabetical order)

Rachel Harker*, Sarah, Rebecca
Stephen Russell*, Richard, Devlin
Ian O’Connor, production assistant, John

*member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States
** member of Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union.
***member of United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829

A PINTER DUET: THE LOVER & ASHES TO ASHES

Two one-act dramas by Harold Pinter

Directed by Rick Lombardo
January 19 – February 10, 2008

“A high-powered night of theatre.” – The Boston Globe

Click here for an interview with the director and actors. (pdf)

This duet of Pinter one-acts explores how elegant lives can be shaken by sexual jealousies. The evening begins with The Lover: as a husband and wife discuss their affairs openly and playfully, this erotically charged tale reveals the necessity and danger of fantasy. The second half of the evening presents a darker side of jealousy with Ashes to Ashes, another account of a husband and wife discussing adultery, only this time the game is fun for neither. These intensely sadistic and pleasurable pieces give us two unique looks at how deeply our passions run and how cold they turn our blood, potentially polluting memory and perception.