University of Adelaide Theatre Guild Stages NO MAN'S LAND at Little Theatre, Beg. Tonight

University of Adelaide Theatre Guild will present NO MAN'S LAND, running today Sat 2, Tues-Sat 5-9 and 12-16 August 2014 at 7.30pm.

Two elderly poets - one wealthy (Hirst) and one impoverished (Spooner) - have met on Hampstead Heath. Hirst has invited Spooner back to his house for a nightcap. The conversation that ensues is both bibulous and literary, invoking a past that may be as much imagined as actual.

Do they know each other, or are we witnessing an elaborate charade of recognition? The ambiguity and the comedy intensify with the vaguely threatening arrival of two younger men employed by Hirst. All four inhabit a no man's land between time present and time remembered, between reality and imagination, a territory which Pinter explores with his characteristic mixture of biting wit, subtle verbal aggression and tragicomic linguistic gamesmanship.

Cast: Michael Baldwin, John Edge, Matt Houston and Jonathan Pheasant

Director Warwick Cooper said "For lovers of English and Drama, it is a veritable treasure trove of playwrights and poets past from Shakespeare to Beckett. The text is haunted by ghosts of Pinter's characters, eg 'Davies' from The Caretaker to name just one. Spotting them is an entertainment in itself. No Man's Land is a catalogue of humorous and poetic strategies for making a meaning of mortality as we face the endgame of our life."

DETAILS:

TICKETS: $28 Full / $23 Concession
Online: www.adelaide.edu.au/theatreguild (fee applies)
Tickets at the door subject to availability (cash only)
Group Bookings: 10+ at concession rate from 8313 5999 only
After hours parking available in the University grounds (Please allow extra time for parking on nights when the AFL is playing at Adelaide Oval).