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This Wednesday, Julian Sands will channel a spirit. The British actor, known for his performances in “Warlock,” “Room With a View” and “24,” presents an evening of Harold Pinter’s poetry on Dec. 9 at the Odyssey Theatre. The reading will...
The Guardian - The blog Theatre (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
New York reviewer David Cote is braced for jeers – and possibly cheers – as he unveils his ending to George Bernard Shaw's unfinished play Who is better suited than a theatre critic to write a play? After all, we spend our lives marinating in the damn things, reading them, watching them, analysing their structure and rhetoric as we chase the deadline. We know our classics, naturally, but...
Too Much To Declare (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
I'm at home this Saturday - my sister has rearranged the mother-sitting schedule again. And luckily, because it was the first day the Repairman could visit to mend my oven under guarantee. At first I think the guy's deaf; but in fact he's just decidly odd. He prods the oven, turns some swiches, then sets up his laptop on my kitchen table. He orders some parts - he'll come back to fit them on Thursday,...
Harold Pinter Archive Blog (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Peggy represented a host of foreign-language playwrights: Ödön von Horváth, Tankred Dorst and Günter Grass from the German-speaking world; Arthur Adamov, Fernando Arrabal and Eugène Ionesco from... (From the Harold Pinter Archive blog: Cataloguing the legacy of the great playwright)
The Guardian - The blog Theatre (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Together with Amnesty International, iceandfire are launching a campaign to find new plays about human rights – but how do you write about oppression without sounding worthy or didactic? Next week, iceandfire theatre company launch Everyone Has the Right , a call for new plays about human rights, in partnership with Amnesty International. As their patron I should declare an interest, but nonetheless...
SWISS COTTAGE COURIER (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
At the excellent 50th anniversary event for Hampstead Theatre, I learned more about their fantastic work with young writers. So I am more than happy to pass on details of a competition the Theatre is doing with the RSC for young people who are budding writers. See below: I am just writing to let you know about a competition we are running here at Hampstead in association with the RSC. I would be really...
Local Nights Out (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
The Caretaker was Harold Pinter’s first big hit when it was first performed in 1940. Half a century later, it is still as mysterious and compelling as it ever was. Hollywood star and Tony Award winning actor Jonathan Pryce joins the list of great actors such as Donald Pleasance and Michael Gambon who have previously played [...]
Harold Pinter Archive Blog (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Although there are no surviving manuscripts in Peggy’s archive, there are snippets and fragments of writers’ work to be found in the client files. John Bowen, for example, sent Peggy the first four... (From the Harold Pinter Archive blog: Cataloguing the legacy of the great playwright)
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.
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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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