Victoria Station (play)
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Victoria Station is a short sketch for two actors by the English playwright Harold Pinter. It was first performed at the National Theatre, London, on 14 October 1982. The performers were Paul Rogers as the Controller and Martin Jarvis as the Driver.
The sketch, set in the control room of a cab company, consists of a radio dialogue between the controller and one of his drivers, who is stopped by the side of 'a dark park' in Crystal Palace. The controller requires the driver to pick up a client from Victoria Station, but the driver declines to move, suddenly obsessed with an earlier client (unmoving in the back seat), whom he says he is in love with and refuses to be parted from. The relationship between the driver and the controller becomes co-dependent, as the driver finally begs, 'Don't leave me.' The sketch, which lasts under ten minutes, is mostly comic as the controller becomes more and more frantic at the driver’s recalcitrance, but the closing moments take on a darker tone as the controller leaves the office in menacing search of the driver.
Victoria Station was among the sketches included in the 2007 show, Pinter's People.
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| Plays : Ashes to Ashes, The Basement, Betrayal, The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, Celebration, The Collection, The Dumb Waiter, The Dwarfs, Family Voices, The Homecoming, The Hothouse, A Kind of Alaska, Landscape, The Lover, Moonlight, Monologue, Mountain Language, A Night Out, Night School, No Man's Land, Old Times, One for the Road, Party Time, Remembrance of Things Past (with Di Trevis), The Room, Silence, A Slight Ache, Tea Party, Voices (with James Clarke) Sketches : Apart from That, Applicant, The Black and White, Dialogue for Three, Interview, Last to Go, The New World Order, Night, Precisely, Press Conference, Request Stop, Special Offer, That's All, That's Your Trouble, Trouble in the Works, Victoria Station |
