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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

A Dialogued Review: Ian Rickson’s ‘The Birthday Party’ 2018

Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies avatarPosted on 29th March 2018 by Basil Chiasson3rd April 2018

The following dialogue explores the recent production of Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party, which is playing at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London’s West End from 9 January to 14 April 2018. The production is directed by Ian Rickson and stars Peter Wight as Petey, Zoë Wannamaker as Meg, Toby Jones as Stanley, Pearl Mackie as Lulu, Stephen Mangan as Goldberg and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as McCann. Set design is by … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Influence, Legacy, Production, Stage | Tagged Betrayal, Harold Pinter Theatre, Ian Rickson, Pearl Mackie, Peter Wight, Quay Brothers, Samuel Beckett, Stephen Mangan, The Birthday Party, Toby Jones, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Zoë Wanamaker

Sir Peter Hall, 1930-2017

Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies avatarPosted on 15th September 2017 by Mark Taylor-Batty2nd July 2019

The Pinter: Histories and Legacies team were saddened to learn earlier this week of the death of Sir Peter Hall. Without any doubt, Hall was the most important figure in post-war twentieth-century British theatre, a director and visionary whose own history is a map of that period, and whose legacies are interwoven into the fabric of the British cultural landscape. He modernised the British theatre, elevated the role and artistry … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Influence, Interview, Legacy | Tagged A Kind of Alaska, Betrayal, Family Voices, John Gielgud, Landscape, Michael Codron, National Theatre, No Man's Land, Old Times, Peter Hall, Ralph Richardson, Royal Shakespeare Company, Samuel Beckett, Silence, The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, The Collection, The Homecoming, Victoria Station

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
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