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Theatre: Pitch-perfect Pinter
Pinter Seven: A Slight Ache and The Dumb Waiter
Harold Pinter Theatre, London
Star performances: Martin Freeman (left) and Danny Dyer
[Marc Brenner] 
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
THIS season of Pinter’s short plays and monologues comes to a glorious finale with Pinter Seven.
The programme consists of two old favourites, written in the ’50s.
But where you might expect a pair of period pieces lovingly restored for a modern audience, you are treated to an evening of theatre at the top of its game.
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