SOURCE: Hall, Ann C. Review of The Lover, by Harold Pinter. Theatre Journal 53, no. 4 (December 2001): 659-61.

In the following review, Hall applauds Pinter's The Lover as a comedy of sexual manners.

Like all theatres across the country, Actor's Theatre of Louisville (ATL) must provide exciting plays and still turn a profit. For many theatres, the choice is simple—avoid the unusual. Given its Humana Festival, it is clear that ATL takes the road less traveled, offering new works every spring. But the artistic staff felt that many theatre classics, those under-produced gems that do not appeal to American audiences, were being ignored. At their prompting, Free Theatre was born in 2000; now once a year ATL produces a classic and charges nothing for the performances. Such an experiment introduces theatre in general, and ATL in particular, to audiences who could not afford regular admission, in itself a laudable goal...