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Category Archives: Politics

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

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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 →

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

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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 →

Often Political, Always Dramatic, Ever a Sketch Writer

Lately our research team has been endeavouring to build a complete publication record of Pinter’s works as part of the content of the database. This project happens to entail contending with lost and more recently discovered works. Perhaps fittingly, then, Pinter’s widow, Lady Antonia Fraser, has just discovered a never-before-seen sketch by her late husband, which she submitted to the Guardian for publication, accompanied by a few of her own … Continue reading →


Pinter Goes West: Betrayal at Salisbury Playhouse & The Caretaker at Bristol Old Vic

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In the run-up to the tenth anniversary since Harold Pinter’s death, theatre audiences in the West of England have had the opportunity to see both early and late middle period work with The Caretaker at Bristol Old Vic and Betrayal at Salisbury Playhouse. The two young directors (Christopher Haydon and Jo Newman), have succeeded in refreshing these two repertoire favourites. Past Pinter productions haunted me on the train journey to … Continue reading →

On the Road to Pinter

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Lately, as part of my research for the Pinter Histories and Legacies project, I’ve been leafing through Pinter’s scrapbooks in the British Library. Two weeks ago I ran into some materials on various productions of Pinter’s play One for the Road, from 1984. This caught my attention because most of my work on Pinter has focused on his shift after the 1970s into a more explicitly political register. In one … Continue reading →

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