Pinter's People

"Pinter's People" is a compilation of revue sketches or short prose works by Harold Pinter, which was performed for four weeks from 30 January, 2007, at the Haymarket Theatre, in London, starring Bill Bailey, Geraldine McNulty, Sally Phillips, and Kevin Eldon.

It included:
*"Apart From That" (first performed 2006)
*"The Black and White" (1959)
*"Last to Go" (1959)
*"The New World Order" (1991)
*"Night" (1969)
*"Precisely" (1983)
*"Press Conference" (2002)
*"Request Stop" (1959)
*"Special Offer" (1959)
*"Tess" (2000)
*"That's All" (1959)
*"That's Your Trouble" (1959)
*"Trouble in the Works" (1959)
*"Victoria Station" (1982)

Critical response

Charles Spencer, in "The Daily Telegraph" described the show as "one of the most punishingly unfunny evenings I have ever endured in a theatre."

In "The Guardian," Michael Billington commented, "Pinter’s people have been turned into lurching grotesques and the result does a grave disservice both to the writer and comic acting."

The critic for "The Times" wrote: "Last night I was sickened by some of the coarsest performances I have ever seen in a London playhouse."

The London Sunday papers were more favourable. "The Observer" talked of "the great pleasures of the evening" and praised the performers.