🎭 TheaterReview No country for old men: Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land hits differently post-Brexit. | ✍️ kerryreid ReaderRecommends
, and the more overtly political work he’d create in the 1980s . But it’s primarily a comedy of language, at least in Steppenwolf’s current intriguing staging under the direction of Les Waters, starring ensemble member Jeff Perry and Mark Ulrich .
In the first act, the two codgers grow sloppy on drink and nostalgia. “What happened to our cottages? What happened to our lawns?” laments Spooner, sounding perilously close to those “we used to be a country, a proper country” memes on social media. With the arrival of the younger generation, embodied in loutish Foster and silkily sinister Briggs , the stakes are raised.
The sense of menace here isn’t so much from outside forces as it is the vagaries of the older men’s own minds, implied by the title. Perry’s Hirst tells Spooner that he’s in “the last lap of a race I had long forgotten to run.” As usual with Pinter, we’re asked to fill in the gaps in their histories and decide for ourselves where the narrative truth may lie.
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