No Man's Land

Set against the decayed elegance of a house in London's Hampstead Heath, in <i>No Man's Land</i> two men face each other over a drink. Do they know each other, or is each performing an elaborate character of recognition? Their ambiguity - and the comedy - intensify with the arrival of two younger men, the one ostensibly a manservant, the other a male secretary. All four inhabit a no man's land between time present and time remembered, between reality and imagination - a territory which Pinter explores with his characteristic mixture of biting wit, aggression, and anarchic sexuality.