
Reviewer response to Pinter's "The caretaker"
Author(s) -
Tomaž Onič
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
acta neophilologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2350-417X
pISSN - 0567-784X
DOI - 10.4312/an.37.1-2.87-94
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , literature , turning point , point (geometry) , space (punctuation) , history , art , aesthetics , philosophy , linguistics , visual arts , period (music) , geometry , mathematics
The Caretaker is one of Harald Pinter's early plays. It was an immediate success, and it drew the attention of many critics, who started judging this contemporary British playwright's works from a new perspective. Therefore, many scholars consider The Caretaker an important turning point in the reception of Pinter's works. The play has seen many stagings all over the world, two of them in Slovenia. This article sets out its most prominent productions, analyses and comments on their critical reviews, and compares these to the response to Pinter in Slovene cultural space.