Harold Pinter theatre, LondonAlan Ayckbourn's Absent Friends (1974) was his first play to experiment with almost no action " it is funny but there is reason not to laugh. The play is not only, as the critic Benedict Nightingale once wrote, about the "death of love", it is about death by conversation. A group of friends have invited recently bereaved Colin (splendidly played by Reece Shearsmith) to tea. Colin, far fro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM on February 18, 2012