Not sure how that particular interchange could be spiced up, unless both characters were on fire at the time.

Your admonition to make sure kids are exposed to original books when seeing movies should be carved in stone over every library door.

I read my kids the Mowgli stories, and the Just So stories, too. I tried "Captains Courageous," a personal favorite of mine and an obvious influence on Robert Heinlein, but they got bored with it.

I'm not really intending to see any Pinter plays, but that's based only on my preference, and that alone is not a valid criticism of his work. I don't like to pay money just to be bored or depressed, although I'm sure it's good for my soul.

Oddly, none of the plays you listed really falls into the "boring or depressing" category (well, maybe the Glass Menagerie is depressing). Why is that?