THE BRAINCHILD of Jamie Lloyd, the ongoing Pinter at the Pinter season at the Harold Pinter Theatre commemorates the playwright’s death 10 years ago with seven different compilations of his one-act plays and monologues. Packed with actors at the top of their game, it's a theatrefest to make the heart sing.

Not only does it showcase Pinter’s range through comedy, anger and political satire to the poignantly personal, raw, violent and prescient, it is also a landmark in the history of theatre craft — a seismic shift from linear narrative to the kind of drama where the fragile construct of words often disguises real character complexity.