Ashes to Ashes

Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter’s haunting, deeply enigmatic two-person dramatic chamber piece 'Ashes to Ashes' received its highly anticipated American premiere at the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Gramercy Theatre in 1999. The claustrophobic, real-time psychological narrative unfolds inside an elegant country home where a husband named Devlin systematically interrogates his wife Rebecca about her past, tracking her fractured, chilling descriptions of a dominant former lover who controlled an unspecified, terrifying mass movement of people, slowly merging her private domestic trauma with the collective historical horrors of the Holocaust. Directed by Pinter himself, the pristine production starred Lindsay Duncan and David Strathairn.