Keeping faith with Pinter
Gretchen Egolf and Alan Cox in Betrayal. Photos: T. Charles Erickson.A year or two ago, after several failed Pinter productions at the ART and elsewhere, I wondered aloud, "Is Pinter still possible?" It seemed to me then that pop culture's absorption of this playwright's coldly comic menace had fatally undermined his dramatic impact - or rather, had swallowed up his acid irony in the new, glib, millennial…