The Lover / The Collection Tickets

About The Lover / The Collection

The Lover and The Collection are one-act plays written by Harold Pinter. Their brevity means they are rarely performed, but the Comedy Theatre has untied The Lover and The Collection into an exciting double-bill, running from 29 January to 3 May 2008.

The Lover play plot

The Lover revolves around three characters: the husband, the wife and the lover – or so playwright Harold Pinter leads us to believe. However, there is much more to this play than meets the eye. The Lover explores the repercussions when dull domesticity and sexual fantasy collide.

The Collection play plot

The Collection was written by Pinter in 1961. It features just four characters: two couples, James and Stella, and Harry and Bill. The Collection explores the jealousy that arises from a suspected one-night stand between Stella and Bill. It is essentially a comedy, but uncertainty and danger are never far away.

A top-class cast

The Lovers stars Richard Coyle (The Whistleblowers, Coupling) and Gina McKee (who replaces a sick Tara Fitzgerald) as the husband and wife. Timothy West (Bleak House, Bedtime) and Charlie Cox (Stardust) join Coyle and McKee in The Collection. With such an impressive cast, this is a theatrical treat definitely not to be missed.