As presented on ABC Television's Armchair Theatre, it was viewed by 6.4 million households, at that time a record for a single television drama.Some other ABC production details (full cast and credits accessible at BFI Screenonline):ĭesigner Assheton GortonCastTom Bell – Albert StokesĪpplicant is a dramatic sketch written by Harold Pinter. (Full production details and 'Radio Review' accessible at Its performance on television a month later, on 24 April 1960, was Pinter's first big success as a playwright in that medium.

Then he returns home to his mother.The play had its first performance on the BBC Third Programme on 1 March 1960, with Pinter's acting-school classmate and friend Barry Foster as Albert Stokes, Harold Pinter as Seeley, and Vivien Merchant, Pinter's first wife, as the Girl.

After being falsely accused of groping a female at an office party, he wanders the streets until he meets a girl, who invites him to her flat, where he responds to her overtures by angrily demeaning her. A Night Out is a play written by Harold Pinter in 1959.Īlbert Stokes, a loner in his late twenties lives with his emotionally suffocating mother and works in an office.

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