Peter Hall's 1967 debut of this play has four of its characters simultaneously light cigars from the same match before drawing back, a choice which has been adopted by most subsequent stagings.
Peter Hall's 1967 debut of this play has four of its characters simultaneously light cigars from the same match before drawing back, a choice which has been adopted by most subsequent stagings. This play opens with one character reading a newspaper and arguing with another about which horses are likely winners. Another of its characters recalls the time he and his brother had sex with a pair of women at a bombed out building during the Blitz. In this play's second act, one character prompts an argument by eating a cheese roll another had left out. Its lone female character says "if you take the glass… I'll take you" during a sexually charged argument over a (*) glass of water. This play opens when the philosophy professor Teddy and his wife Ruth return from America in the middle of the night, prompting a power struggle between Teddy and his brothers Lenny and Joey and his father, the retired butcher Max. For 10 points, name this play by Harold Pinter.
Peter Hall's 1967 debut of this play has four of its characters simultaneously light cigars from the same match before drawing back, a choice which has been adopted by most subsequent stagings.
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