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Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies

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Happy Birthday, Harold: Pinter at the Pinter’s Memento Mori

Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies avatarPosted on 1st November 2018 by Catriona Fallow7th December 2018

On Wednesday the 10th of October 2018, Harold Pinter would have turned 88. 10 years after his death, the Jamie Lloyd Company (the team behind the unprecedented Pinter at the Pinter season currently running at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London’s West End until February 2019) gathered together an all-star cast of performers to celebrate his legacy in a one-off gala event, Happy Birthday, Harold. Framing the event as a birthday – … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, History, Influence, Legacy, Poetry, Politics, Production, Stage | Tagged Arthur Miller, Betrayal, Death, Harold Pinter Theatre, House of Commons Speech, I Know the Place, It Is Here (for A), No Man's Land, Pinter at the Pinter, Samuel Beckett, The Coast, The French Lieutenant's Woman, To My Wife

Reflections on the ‘Pinter on Film, Television and Radio’ conference, 19-20 September 2018

Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies avatarPosted on 1st October 2018 by Amanda Wrigley2nd July 2019

The University of Reading arm of the Pinter Histories and Legacies project—peopled by Professor Jonathan Bignell, Dr Billy Smart and Dr Amanda Wrigley—were thrilled to welcome project colleagues and an international group of academic friends old and new from an exciting range of disciplines to the University of Reading’s Minghella Studies, the home of the Film, Theatre and Television Department, on 19 September 2018 for the first day of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Adaptation, Film, History, Influence, Interview, Legacy, Politics, Production, Radio, Stage, Television, Uncategorised

Booking open for ‘Pinter on Film, Television and Radio’ conferences at University of Reading and British Library (19-20 September 2018)

Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies avatarPosted on 8th August 2018 by Billy Smart11th July 2019

[This is a post for the 2018 conference. For the 2019 conference in Leeds, please click here] Booking is now open for our two day ‘Pinter on Film, Television and Radio’ conference, held at the University of Reading on Wednesday September 19 and the British Library on Thursday September 20. Each day has a particular focus. ‘Pinter on Screen’ at Reading deals with Pinter’s work on film and television, while … Continue reading →

Posted in Adaptation, Film, Radio, Stage, Television | Tagged BBC, British Library, Conferences, University of Reading

Pinter’s History, Pinter’s Legacies

Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies avatarPosted on 27th July 2017 by Basil Chiasson27th July 2017

The first order of business for the Harold Pinter: Histories and Legacies project is to develop a database for registering every major production in the United Kingdom, from 1957 to 2017, of Harold Pinter’s plays, screenplays, television and radio dramas. As our team beavers away, reviewing and tweaking the conceptual design of the database and anticipating its completion, we’re all engaged in various projects and tasks relevant to both the … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, History, Radio, Stage, Television | Tagged A Night Out, Armchair Theatre, Barbara Bray, BBC, Gina McKee, Indira Varma, Jenny Quayle, Kenneth Cranham, Samuel Beckett, Sydney Newman, The Caretaker, The Hothouse, The Room, Thomas Baptiste

Harold Pinter on DVD and Blu-ray: A Guide

Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies avatarPosted on 20th July 2017 by Billy Smart14th August 2017

When looking for DVD or Blu-ray copies of Harold Pinter’s work on screen, a simple rule generally applies – if it was made for television it is unlikely to have been commercially released, whereas if it was a film it almost certainly has (but it might well now be deleted). This article is intended to serve as a simple guide to what has been made available and (where it applies) … Continue reading →

Posted in Adaptation, Film, Television | Tagged A Night Out, Accident, Adam Hall, Aidan Higgins, Alan Bates, Anthony Shaffer, Armchair Theatre, BBC, Betrayal, Butley, Christopher Morahan, Clive Donner, Comfort of Strangers, David Jones, Elia Kazan, Elizabeth Bowen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka, Fred Uhlman, Harry Burton, Heat of the Day, Helen Mirren, Ian McEwan, Jack Clayton, Jerry Schatzberg, John Fowles, John Irvin, Joseph Losey, Karel Reisz, Kenneth Branagh, L.P. Hartley, Langrishe Go Down, Laurence Olivier, Malcolm McDowell, Margaret Atwood, Melvyn Bragg, Michael Anderson, Nicholas Mosley, Nobel Prize, Paul Rogers, Penelope Mortimer, Peter Hall, Philip Saville, Reunion, Robin Maugham, Russell Hoban, Simon Gray, Sleuth, The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, The Collection, The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Go-Between, The Handmaid's Tale, The Homecoming, The Last Tycoon, The Pumpkin Eater, The Quiller Memorandum, The Servant, The Trial, Turtle Diary, Volker Schlondorff
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