Gradually it has assumed a place as a pivotal Pinter play.

A Dubliner has the edge with a Beckett play just as a Londoner would be at an advantage with, say, a Pinter play.

Later, at 19, she was an assistant on "Betrayal," the film version of the Pinter play and Spiegel's last movie.

"The Birthday Party" is a play of intrigue, with an underlying motif of betrayal (as in the later Pinter play of that name).

Of course, there would be silence, wouldn't there, this being a Pinter play.

Even if only 15 million people see it, more people will be exposed to a Pinter play than ever before.

The dialogue resembles nothing you've heard before in the theater, except perhaps in a Pinter play.

The way phrases cross, the way legs cross, the way a head turns can mean everything in a Pinter play.

In January 2013, she starred in another Pinter play, Old Times, again directed by Ian Rickson.