One for the Road, considered Pinter's "statement about the human rights abuses of totalitarian governments" was inspired, according to Antonia Fraser,by reading on May 19, 1983, Jacobo Timerman's Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, a book about torture on Argentina's military dictatorship; later, in January 1984, he got to write it after an argument with two Turkish girls at a family birthday party on the subject of torture.
The year following the publication, Pinter would visit Turkey with Arthur Miller "to investigate allegations of the torture and persecution of Turkish writers"; as he explains further in his interview with Nicholas Hern, "A Play and Its Politics", conducted in February 1985 and published in 1985 in the revised and reset Eyre Methuen hardback and in 1986 in the Grove Evergreen paperback and illustrated with production photographs taken at the premiere by Ivan Kyncl, torture of political prisoners in countries like Turkey "is systematic".
Due to the tolerance and even support of such human rights abuses by the governments of Western countries like the United States, Pinter emphasizes (prophetically it turned out given later revelations about extraordinary rendition) in One for the Road how such abuses might happen in or at the direction of these democracies too.
In this play the actual physical violence takes place off stage; Pinter indirectly dramatizes such terror and violence through verbal and non-verbal allusions to off-stage acts of repeated rape of Gila, physical mutilation of Victor, and the ultimate murder of their son, Nicky. The effects of the violence that takes place off stage are, however, portrayed verbally and non-verbally on stage.
Though in the interview, Pinter says that he himself "always find[s] agitprop insulting and objectionable […] now, of course I'm doing the same thing".
He observes that "when the play was done in New York, as the second part of a triple-bill [Other Places, directed by Alan Schneider, at the Manhattan Theatre Club (1984)], a goodly percentage of people left the theatre when it was over.
They were asked why they were going and invariably they said, 'We know all about this. We don't need to be told.' Now, I believe that they were lying. They did not know about it and did not want to know".
Summary:
Statement about the abuse of human rights by totalitarian governments, finds an unctuous and “civilized” interrogator humiliating the doomed members of a family who have become enemies of the state.1985, UK, Summer Season Tv Series, Episode 13, Drama
The Play (Film Version):
Director: Kenneth Ives
Stars: Alan Bates, Roger Lloyd Pack, PAul Parris
Writer: Harold Pinter
My Personal Comments:
I don't think fascism has a nationality, sir, fascism is not Turkish or American it's an outrageous, disgusting, and ignorant political perspective that might be found everywhere all around the world.
We have fascism against African Americans (Even today) and also American Indians in the states, we have a lot of persecution during the IRA conflicts in Ireland and Basque conflict and problems in Spain.
We have total annihilation, a holocaust against the Jews during the third reich Germany era, an official declaration of fascism by Mussolini in the country of Italy, we have frank and open slavery in England And America also ill-treatment against the colonies of the British, we have a lot of inhuman and gross fascist abuse against Algerians by the French, we have a total violation of human rights against Palestinians and of course, we have also inhuman and disgusting fascist torture in this country especially against the left-wingers, intellectuals, thinkers, authors, etc. since many long years.
Unfortunately to be a soldier or a police in uniform or a politician in another sort of civilized version of uniform is still considered to be something superior rather than being a scientist (ı mean positive, good, and beneficial in terms of humanity) or a writer, doctor, artist, a creative person or an intellectual by a great deal of the public and the majority of the people in this country and still even today.
We had suffered a lot from military coups and the last one in 1980 was a total eradication of intellectuals and thinkers, they eradicated a huge amount of leftists and caused lots of other problems including even terror in this country, ı don't even consider those militaristic fascists even as human beings.
But the point is fascism is not taking place only here in this country, it's simply everywhere. The real question is who was behind all of those military coups?
Well not me, think again, did some of the Western countries, and especially the governments of the United States support those coups in order to take advantage of dictating their will on Turkish military commanders and leaders of this country, ı mean just as puppets to use them in accordance with their benefits and political interests for instance?
Did they want to impose their directives on those commander politicians?
Fascism does not have a gender or a nationality, sir, it's simply rather a global monster.
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