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The unspoken eloquence of their pauses is worthy of Pinter himself.
Like Stewart Lee, with whom he otherwise shares very little, he is a master of the long pause and the unspoken punchline.
Even the pauses are rich with unspoken protest, or simple bewilderment, as when Curtis gently fills him in on the complicated racial makeup of his grandson's fiancée, who is part African-American, part Vietnamese and part Peruvian.
Carey Perloff has done a beautiful job of directing her ensemble so that the strategic silences and cryptic pauses in the script add layers of unspoken context to Pinter's play.
He speaks the playwright's shards of speech with just the right measure of psychic distraction, and fills the pauses with the sense that the most powerful emotions he is feeling are inarticulable and unspoken.
And left unspoken.
A. It was unspoken.
"He has that unspoken quality".
There was this unspoken thing.
"Very often stuff goes unspoken.
One word went unspoken: Romney.
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