Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACT One of the vaguest moments in Harold Pinter’s career is his direction of Vanilla, a play authored by Jane Stanton Hitchcock that toured in Britain in the summer of 1990 but failed to seduce both critics and audiences. The production’s critical failure and the fact that the playscript remains unpublished have contributed to the fact that Vanilla has never been the subject of a study of Pinter and is rarely mentioned in the scholarship. This article is a first effort to engage properly with Vanilla, both the production and the play. Drawing on an interview and correspondence with Stanton Hitchcock, her production diary, the unpublished playscript, performance reviews, Pinter scholarship, and Pinter’s own plays and other writing, this article provides a brief history of Stanton Hitchcock’s career as an artist and a reading of Vanilla, which accounts for select moments in Pinter’s own work, namely Party Time (1991), to argue that Vanilla influenced some of Pinter’s original writing in the wake of his direction of Stanton Hitchcock’s play.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".