No Man’s Land
Past productions
- Playful Productions, Wyndham’s Theatre, London
- Duke of York’s Theatre, London
- National Theatre, National Theatre – Lyttelton, National Theatre
- Almeida Theatre and Bill Kenwright, Comedy Theatre, London (now Harold Pinter Theatre, London)
- Almeida Theatre, Islington, London
- The Casson Company, Casson Room, Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead
- National Theatre, The Old Vic, London, National Theatre – Lyttelton, National Theatre, and other locations
A play by Harold Pinter
Hirst is an alcoholic upper-class litterateur who lives in a grand house with Foster and Briggs, respectively his purported amanuensis and manservant (or apparent bodyguard), who may be lovers. Spooner, a “failed, down-at-heel poet” whom Hirst has “picked up in a Hampstead pub” and invited home for a drink, becomes Hirst’s house guest for the night. Through a contest of at least partly fantastic reminiscences, Spooner appears to have known Hirst at university and to have shared male and female acquaintances and relationships.
