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Entertainment and Showbiz! (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Late playwright Harold Pinter had already scripted how his funeral should be held before he died. The dramatist’s burial on Tuesday took place in the same way he had planned. Gathered at Kensal Green Cemetery in north London, about 50 mourners heard a number of readings and poems that Pinter had chosen to mark his own [...]
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
A violent pacifist, a charming bruiser – and the greatest playwright of his generation. Five actors remember what it was like to be in a rehearsal room with Harold Pinter
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RssDaily (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
Three or four things I know about Harold Pinter who died in London on Christmas Eve, age 78: To visit him in his Holland Park home was to enter unwittingly into a Pinter play. After greeting me at the door of his officeâwhich was in a separate cottage in the grounds of the house where he lived with his wife, Antonia Fraserâhe triple-locked the door behind him with great, deliberate care, like...
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New Statesman (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ariel Dorfman on the life and work of Harold Pinter (1930-2008) The email came to me a few days after Harold Pinter's death. It was from Farouq Homar, who was in the process of translating three of the great dramatist's plays into Kurdish and who lamented: I am unlucky that I will be unable to send the great playwright a volume of three of his works about to appear in Kurdish, as a gift, because...
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Nick Cohen (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
In 1988, Harold Pinter accompanied Arthur Miller on a trip to study the plight of the Kurds trapped in the mountains that divide Turkey from Iraq. The Kurds needed the solidarity of famous writers because the Turkish nationalist government in Ankara so hated their aspirations it banned the Kurdish language. The prospects for the largest stateless [...]
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The Blog of Walker (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
By Geoffrey Stevens, via GuelphMercury.com: Gordon Fairweather died on Christmas Eve at the age of 85. Perhaps it was because of the season, or perhaps it was because his passing coincided with those of two international celebrities, playwright Harold Pinter and singer Eartha Kitt, but Fairweather's death did not attract the attention it might have. Fairweather was one of those rare politicians who...
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The Playgoer (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
-Despite all the recent closings, Broadway was a billion dollar business in 2008. -Mark Lamos, for years head of Hartford Stage and one of the busiest directors in LORT, is now taking over the little Westport County Playhouse . -Turns out Harold Pinter was a showman to the end, dictating plans for his own funeral . Most movingly, he asked the great Michael Gambon to read a passage from his masterpiece...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
The manner in which he brought the language of the street, speech tics and pauses onto the stage is an important part of Pinter's legacy, writes
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Moderato (Free subscription) | 01/05/2009
There is hardly time or space for anything more than a footnote on the subject of Harold Pinter, who died on Christmas Eve at the age of 78. But this week I found myself watching The Servant – the 1963 film Pinter scripted for director Joseph Losey, starring James Fox and Dirk Bogarde. I marvelled [...]
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Index on Censorship (Free subscription) | 01/05/2009
In 1992, Harold Pinter talked to Index on Censorship editor Andrew Graham-Yooll about his struggle to publish ‘obscene words to describe obscene acts and obscene attitudes’. Indexoncensorship.org here reproduces the article. American Football [...]
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The Guardian - The blog Theatre (Free subscription) | 01/05/2009
Josie Rourke: From Dennis Kelly's political rigour to Anthony Weigh's bold rejection of conventions, Harold Pinter is unquestionably in the DNA of today's dramatists
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The Stage - Newsblog (Free subscription) | 01/05/2009
Isn’t it weird that they managed to dim the lights of all Broadway’s theatre marquees for a minute last Tuesday to honour the passing of Harold Pinter, as reported here - yet the West End could only finally muster a partial response four days later, when ATG did so at the Duke of York’s on Saturday evening, prior to the final performance of the revival there of No Man’s Land, and also at its other...
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Circle of 13 (Free subscription) | 01/05/2009
4 Jan, 2009[Below is a speech by Harold Pinter entitled “Art, Truth, and Politics” upon receiving the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature on December 7, 2005:]In 1958 I wrote the following:"There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false."I believe that these...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 01/05/2009
Bruni de la Motte writes: Pinter was charming and affable. Over a bottle of claret, we talked for over an hour
