Night (sketch)

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Night is a short sketch for two performers by the English playwright Harold Pinter. It replaced another piece that was performed as one of a program eight short plays on the theme of marriage, each for two characters, under the title We Who Are About To... at the Hampstead Theatre Club on February 6, 1969. Night, together with the other seven pieces, was then presented as Mixed Doubles: An Entertainment on Marriage at the Comedy Theatre, London, on April 9, 1969. The performers were Nigel Stock and Vivien Merchant. The play was first published in Landscape & Silence, Methuen, London 1969.

The sketch, consists of a middle aged man and woman, a long-married couple, sipping coffee and reminiscing about their youth, when they met and fell in love. Each remembers the events very differently. The humour of the piece is gentle with a note of sadness at the disjunction of the couple.

Night was among the sketches included in the 2007 show, Pinter's People.

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Sweethearts, an 1874 W. S. Gilbert play with a similar theme.

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The plays of Harold Pinter
Plays : Ashes to Ashes, The Basement, Betrayal, The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, Celebration, The Collection, The Dumb Waiter, The Dwarfs, Family Voices, The Homecoming, The Hothouse, A Kind of Alaska, Landscape, The Lover, Moonlight, Monologue, Mountain Language, A Night Out, Night School, No Man's Land, Old Times, One for the Road, Party Time, Remembrance of Things Past (with Di Trevis), The Room, Silence, A Slight Ache, Tea Party, Victoria Station, Voices (with James Clarke)
Sketches : Apart From That, Applicant, The Black and White, Dialogue for Three, Interview, Last to Go, The New World Order, Night, Precisely, Press Conference, Request Stop, Special Offer, That's All, That's Your Trouble, Trouble in the Works