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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 27, No. 13. 1964.
[introduction]
Seven short plays in two nights of Arts Festival Drama failed to present anything exceptional other than a fine performance of Harold Pinter's "The Lover," by Otago. The somewhat static nature of most of the plays chosen required a higher standard of acting and production than was forthcoming.
Originally for television, "The Lover" examines aspects of the idea of universality in marriage and explores the dichotomy between the feelings of lust and admiration, of sensual excitement and the dreariness of routine existence. The eternal triangle is startlingly twisted with one actor playing the two roles of husband and lover, resolution coming at the end as the roles are confused and the dual personality merged.