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The Caretaker review: Harrold Pinter at his most sinister, writes PATRICK MARMION
The finger-zapping Star Wars malcontent Emperor Palpatine has fallen on hard times in Chichester. Very hard times.
The snarling racism of the period remains intact, alongside Pinter's legendary menace as Mick and Davies vie for control of the dank fleapit attic, threatening each other with proverbs and non sequiturs. His filthy clothes and pink skin even appear to be peeling like the wallpaper in the mouldy sock of a room that is Stephen Brimson Lewis's set — fitted with two rusty beds and any amount of junk like an old scrapyard. But where his performance is sad, tender and vulnerable, Jack Riddiford as his brother Mick lays on weird bullying threats of violence, pulling on leather gloves as if about to strangle someone.
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