...portion of this note read: The desire for verification is understandable but cannot always be satisfied. There are no hard distinctions between what is real...unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. The thing is not necessarily either true or false: it can be both true and false. The assumption that...

...wish for it, he continues, "is understandable." Unfortunately, the wish "cannot always be satisfied. There are no hard distinctions between what is real...what is unreal, nor between what is true and what false. The thing is not necessarily true or false. It can be both true and false." It is precisely...

...of material for dramatization between actual occurrence and delusion (or myth). Pinter points out: "There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and Elsewhere in the production, in a further denial of the absolute distinction between real and unreal,...

...The Dumb Waiter at the Royal Court in 1960, Pinter defined the surrealistic world of his characters: There are no hard distinctions between what is real...unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. The thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false. . .A character on...

...the experience of others, is understandable hut cannot always be satisfied. I suggest there can be no hard distinctions between what is real and what...either true or false: it can be both true and false. A character on the stage who can present no convincing argument or information as to his past experience,...

...the experience of others, is understandable but cannot always be satisfied. I suggest there can be no hard distinctions between what is real and what...either true or false; it can be both true and false. A character on the stage who can present no convincing argument or information as to his past experience,...

...cannot always be satisfied. There are no hard distinctions between what is true or what is false. The thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false. The assumption that to verify what has happened and what is happening presents few problems I take...

...a meaningless or hostile universe — yet not both. Catharine Hughes quoted Pinter's statement that a "thing is not necessarily either true or false,- it can be both true and false" as the guiding assumption of explicitly unengaged theater (183). Susan Hollis Merritt (1995, 170) has...

...playwright Harold Pinter decades ago in his seminal essay on writing character: I suggest there can be no hard distinctions between what is real and what...nor between what is true and what is false. ... A character on the stage who can present no convincing argument or information as to his past experience,...

...equally valid, he explains his personal conviction in his recent article "Art, Truth, and Politics": "There are no hard distinctions between what is real...believe that these assertions still make sense and still do apply to the exploration of reality through art. So as a writer I stand by them but as a citizen...