Three strangers. One locked room. No eyelids. No escape. Just... each other. Forever.
Acting
Harold Pinter acts AND wrote the adaptation—double threat.
Writing
Sartre's vicious dialogue, sharpened by Pinter's signature menace.
Director
Philip Saville
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This BBC 'Wednesday Play' slot aired avant-garde theatre to millions of working-class Britons—imagine millions tuning in for Sartre.
Pinter later called adapting Sartre 'like wrestling with a very intelligent octopus' and refused to discuss it for decades.
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