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Harold Pinter Archive Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Peggy did not always get on well with writers’ wives. As Colin Chambers remarks in his biography, Peggy believed that it was the duty of writers’ wives to put their husbands’ talent before their own... (From the Harold Pinter Archive blog: Cataloguing the legacy of the great playwright)
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
British playwright Joe Orton was one of those artistic comets who blaze brightly but briefly across the theatrical sky. With just a handful of plays from the mid 1960s, Orton hit with a savagely anarchic view of sexuality and morals. What outraged and delighted London during Orton's short life (he died in 1967 at age 34) has endured, with the plays receiving regular revivals. B Street Theatre's delectable...
Harold Pinter Archive Blog (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
As I work my way through Peggy’s client files I’m realising that the archive brilliantly captures the network of relationships that grew up around Margaret Ramsay Ltd. It’s been really interesting to... (From the Harold Pinter Archive blog: Cataloguing the legacy of the great playwright)
Harold Pinter Archive Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
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Harold Pinter Archive Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Listen to David Hare, Simon Callow and Colin Chambers talking about Peggy Ramsay on this National Theatre podcast. I especially like David Hare's recital of a typically forthright letter from Peggy. (From the Harold Pinter Archive blog: Cataloguing the legacy of the great playwright)
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
'The closest I've come to death? Dreaming of drowning' Charles Dance , 64, was born in Worcestershire. He attended art college but, having taken acting lessons, went on to join the RSC. In 1984 he appeared in the television drama The Jewel In The Crown . His role in the television adaptation of Bleak House gained him an International Emmy nomination and the Press Guild award for best actor. His major...
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
NEXT year, the Liverpool Everyman production of Harold Pinter’s modern classic The Caretaker , with Jonathan Pryce as Davies, will transfer to the West End’s Trafalgar Studios for a 14-week season – from January 18 (previews from January 12) to April 17, 2010.
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The critically acclaimed Liverpool Everyman production of Harold Pinter's modern classic The Caretaker, starring Jonathan Pryce as the tramp Davies, will transfer to the West End in the new year (See News::E8831237375369, 18 Mar 2009). According to t...
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Harold Pinter named the four characters in “No Man’s Land” after real-life cricket players, and in Michael Peretzian’s assured revival, now at the Odyssey Theatre, the game is in full swing. In the play, this quartet haunts a Persian-carpeted study,...
Gusts of Popular Feeling (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
I finally watched Kim Ki-young's 1960 film The Housemaid, which was released on DVD a few months ago. It's long been considered a classic (or at least since his work was 'rediscovered' at the 1998 Pusan International Film Festival) and more than lives up to its reputation. Basically, a middle class family moves into a new, two story house, and, due to the wife's pregnancy, hires a maid. (The film is...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
LONDON.- A major photographic exhibition Irving Penn Portraits will open at the National Portrait Gallery in February 2010. Devoted to one of the greatest photographers of his generation who died earlier this month, the exhibition will include over 120 prints from Penn's seven-decade career ranging from his early portraits for Vogue in 1944 to some of his last work. The exhibition is a survey of Penn's...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Never heard of British playwright Jez Butterworth? Think Harold Pinter meets Martin McDonagh, with a little Quentin Tarantino thrown in. Rating: ***
Madame Arcati (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Dear Mme Arcati, I have been feeling guilty about being so beastly to Clive James. I decided therefore to read his new memoir The Blaze of Obscurity in the hope of revising my opinion that he is a pompous pantaloon. Here are a few choice quotations: "I would have liked to have been in England when Larkin died." "My own view of the past was expanded considerably by a recently acquired...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Craig Raine: There is more lying about sex than about any other area so it's very important to be truthful Issue one of Areté, Craig Raine's literary magazine "sort of modelled" on TS Eliot's Criterion, launched in the autumn of 1999 and was packed with new work from a stellar cast of writers including Ian McEwan, Harold Pinter, Patrick Marber and William Boyd. It also included a...
Madame Arcati (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
I have Duncan Fallowell to thank for giving me the biggest laugh of this year. He introduced me to the world of Roger Lewis and his fantastic autobiography Seasonal Suicide Notes: My Life As It Is Lived . It reveals a man who deplores Clive James, Simon Cowell, Harold Pinter et al, yet adores Austria. The state of loathing elevates him to the lyrically comic. If Gore Vidal had a sense of humour he'd...
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eblatt | 08/05/2009
Plot Summary: John LeCarre's secret agen thriller is brought to the gigantic cloak. A British secret agen (Pierce Brosnan) is banished to Panama after having an business with an ambassador's inamorat. Once there he makes link with a parish pump outfitte (Geoffrey Rush) with a atrocious ended and connections to every of the apex political and heav figures in Panama. The outfitte along with has a her...
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