ABSTRACT
For the next decade after Betrayal, Pinter’s work for the stage took a darker turn, more and more toward political and global concerns in eight one-acts and sketches. More than a decade after his last full-length play, Pinter wrote Moonlight, a work which weds love and death to dramatize how each choice made by the most ordinary human being may become a choice between life and death. Private choice becomes public responsibility for life-promoting or destructive acts as the play links private love to the ethics of global justice and injustice. The sketch Precisely signaled an abrupt shift in that direction, followed by four plays, Family Voices and three others featured in a triple bill entitled Other Places: A Kind of Alaska, Victoria Station, and One for the Road.
