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Unlike the Homecoming production that I saw last week, this week's Happy Days is everything the review says it is. Quite stunning. Beckett is a giant talent compared to Pinter. Likewise, Fiona Shaw compared to Eve Best. And there is imagination in the staging at BAM. If you have a choice, go to Brooklyn. I would go out of my way to see Fiona Shaw, in anything.

For some reason in fifty years of involvement in literature and thirty years of theater-going, I had missed Pinter. Sure lots of great Beckett and enjoyable Mamet and Albee, but Pinter was missing. But here he was easily accessible. I tend not to read reviews before I go. I feel I can understand a play without help. And I don't like to have a silly influence. So now I have seen the play and then read the reviews and then read the comments here. What did I find? Eve Best (I missed her in "Moon...