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Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies

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Brian Blessed and Pinter’s The Room: a real knock-out

Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies avatarPosted on 22nd December 2017 by Catriona Fallow6th March 2018

‘Shouting? Swearing? Threats? Menacing looks? I know what you’re thinking: it sounds just like a Harold Pinter play!’ Brian Blessed, Absolute Pandemonium: My Louder than Life Story (London: Pan Books, 2015), p. 77. As the Harold Pinter: Histories and Legacies team prepare for the holiday season, what better time to reflect on some of the more surprising finds and amusing anecdotes we’ve come across? In his 2015 autobiography, Absolute Pandemonium, … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Production, Stage, Uncategorised | Tagged Brian Blessed, Bristol Old Vic, Gulbenkian Studio, Royal Shakespeare Company, The Room, University of Bristol

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

1957 and all that

Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies avatarPosted on 11th July 2017 by Mark Taylor-Batty2nd July 2019
Henry Woolf, 2007

Sixty years ago, Harold Pinter’s first play The Room was performed in a converted squash court at the University of Bristol. Pinter’s school chum Henry Woolf was studying drama there in one of the first postgraduate cohorts of the first University drama department in the country, and asked if Pinter were able to supply a play for him to produce on his course. Pinter had previously told Woolf of his … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Interview, Production, Stage | Tagged Auriol Smith, Celebration, David Davies, Henry Woolf, Quentin Crisp, Susan Engel, The Room, University of Bristol, Workshop Theatre
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