Harold Pinter
Playwright
This week's theatre previews...by Neil Murray. Theatre lights were dimmed across New York as Broadway paid tribute to actor Natasha Richardson 9 Oct 2008: Harold Pinter, who died on Christmas Eve, was one of the most influential and provocative dramatists of his... In this article: Mark Rothko, Stefan Golaszewski, Harold Pinter, Bristol, London, and New York |
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Wales Online | 1 day ago
News & Reviews: Roger Lewis' Seasonal Suicide Notes
...rollercoaster of opinion and acute observation describing his dislike of weddings and family gatherings, London literary parties, Harold Pinter, morris dancing, and everywhere abroad apart from Austria. South Wales also gets a mention.
In this article: Roger Lewis, Oscar, London, South Wales, Suicide, God, Sunday Times, and Emmy
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Guardian | 2 days ago
It was all about Blair Diane Abbott
In this article: Tony Blair, George Bush, Iraq, Saddam Hussein, Diane Abbott, Labour, and Britain
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Telegraph.co.uk - Travel | November 20, 2009
Barbados: Sun sea and G&T
...Christmas and New Year holidays. Mrs O'Hara is the soul of discretion, but it is no secret that the writers Simon Gray and Harold Pinter were regulars at the Coral Reef Club (Gray worked at his typewriter on the terrace, overlooking the...
In this article: Barbados, Caribbean, Massage, Ginger, and Sugar
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L.A. Times - Jacket Copy | November 19, 2009
L.A.'s Wordtheatre in London pairs Nick Hornby and Alfred Molina
...has done more than his share of literary pictures, including "Manifesto," based on a Zola novel, "The Trial," which was Kafka via Harold Pinter, "Anna Karenina" and more. And oh, yes, "The Da Vinci Code." At this event, he'll be literary and...
In this article: Alfred Molina, London, Dr. Octopus, Spider Man 2, Los Angeles, Joe Orton, and Los Angeles Times
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Honolulu Star Bulletin | November 19, 2009
Dysfunctional 'Homecoming' captivates
Glenn Cannon's excellent direction and a talented cast take this Harold Pinter drama and create must-see theater POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Nov 19, 2009 In the earliest episodes of "Dallas," Bobby and his father were tough and ruthless...
In this article: The Homecoming
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Alan Bennett: shy and spiky - but 'one of us'
...the arts world, and over the years the winners have included Michael Tippett, Dame Ninette de Valois, David Lean, Paul Scofield, Harold Pinter, Alfred Brendel, Judi Dench, Tom Stoppard, Mike Leigh, Helen Mirren and Peter Brook. Bennett had...
In this article: Alan Bennett, The History Boys, National Theatre, Tom Stoppard, Ian McKellen, Critics' Circle, Cancer, and AIDS
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Censorship makes art more appealing
...many Hollywood movies, the violence is minimal, there is little sex, and the swearing is rarely more gratuitous than in a Harold Pinter play. 1 Day is as dangerous as a modern British take on West Side Story, a film more famous for...
In this article: Birmingham, West Side Story, I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle, Last Temptation of Christ, DVD, Neil Morrissey, Michael Elphick, and Andrea Arnold
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Independent.co.uk - Theater | November 15, 2009
Mixed Up North, Wilton's Music Hall, London
...Mark Ravenhill's Mother Clap's Molly House about a gay brothel and Di Trevis's extraordinary bid to make a theatrical event of Harold Pinter's superb screen distillation of Proust's A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. Both began life at Lamda and...
In this article: London, Heroin, Mark Ravenhill, and Caryl Churchill
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Woman in power
...Hawaii stage debut tonight as Ruth in the Kennedy Theatre Main Stage production of "The Homecoming." Ruth is the only woman in Harold Pinter's classic tale of sex and violence in a dysfunctional family, and she operates in ways that...
In this article: Hawaii and Michigan State University
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Baltimore Sun | November 11, 2009
Euan Morton rounds out his stage career with a supple tenor
...That's way in the past. It wasn't that I didn't like musicals as a kid. I did, but I didn't find them as exciting as the plays of Harold Pinter or Sam Shepard. Besides, singing was something my mother wanted me to do. And everything she wanted...
In this article: Euan Morton, Boy George, Taboo, Cyrano de Bergerac, Othello, Iago, I Have Nothing, Sam Shepard, and Karen Carpenter
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Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008), was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, poet, author, and political activist. He was one of the most influential playwrights of modern times. He won the Tony Award for Best Play for The Homecoming in 1967 and, in 2005, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Pinter's dramas often involve strong conflicts among ambivalent characters who struggle for verbal and territorial dominance and for their own versions of the past. Stylistically, these works are marked by theatrical pauses and silences, comedic timing, irony, and menace. Thematically ambiguous, they raise complex issues of individual identity oppressed by social forces, language, and vicissitudes of memory. In 1981, Pinter stated that he was not inclined to write plays explicitly about political subjects; yet in the mid-1980s he began writing overtly political plays, reflecting his own heightening political interests and changes in his personal life. This "new direction" in his work and his left-wing political activism stimulated additional critical debate about Pinter's politics. Pinter, his work, and his politics have been the subject of voluminous critical commentary.
- Birth Date:
- October 10, 1930
- Birthplace:
- Hackney, East London, England
- Death Date:
- December 24, 2008
- Place of Death:
- London, England
- Nationality:
- British
- Occupation:
- Playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, poet
- Period:
- 1947–2008
- Influenced By:
- Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, W. B. Yeats; cinema of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s; Surrealism
- Influenced:
- Jez Butterworth, Caryl Churchill, David Mamet, Sam Shepard, Václav Havel, Heathcote Williams
- Website:
- http://www.haroldpinter.org/
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