Overview

All the action takes place in a swish London restaurant where two coarse-grained strategy consultants are dining with their respective wives. At an adjacent table a banker and his wife banter over his recently discovered affair. But while Pinter gets a lot of laughs out of these gold-plated philistines, he also suggests they are displaced people. Shorn of any inherited values, they live in an eternal present of sex, food and conspicuous consumption. - Michael Billington, Guardian

Genres

Cast

James Bolam

Matt

Janie Dee

Suki

Colin Firth

Russell

James Fox

Richard

Michael Gambon

Lambert

Julia McKenzie

Prue

Sophie Okonedo

Sonia

Stephen Rea

Waiter

Penelope Wilton

Julie