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Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies

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Harold Pinter at the RSC (Part 2): Reflections on the Archive

Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies avatarPosted on 4th July 2018 by Catriona Fallow7th July 2018

One of the consistent pleasures of research into the production histories of Pinter’s theatrical work for this project has been the opportunity to learn from and work with the archivists and librarians at different institutions that hold rich and varied material connected with Pinter’s expansive career. Of course, as with any research strategy – particularly those engaged in revisiting or reassessing traces of past performances – archival research is not … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Influence, Interview, Legacy, Production, Stage | Tagged Archives, Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, The Dumb Waiter, Theatregoround

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

The Peartaker: Pinter, Rudkin, and the Midlands

Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies avatarPosted on 10th October 2017 by Catriona Fallow10th October 2017

This is the shine, the powder and blood, and here am I, Straddled, exile always in one Whitbread Ale town, Or such. Pinter, New Year in the Midlands (1950) ‘[I]n this gaudy, bawd-filled Midlands pub one even wonders if there is a glimpse of Pinter himself in “the clamping/ Red shirted boy ragefull, thudding his cage.”’ Billington, The Life and Work of Harold Pinter (1996) Ahead of the project’s first … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Influence, Legacy, Poetry, Production, Stage | Tagged Afore Night Come, Aldwych Theatre, Birmingham, David Rudkin, New Arts Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, The Dumb Waiter

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

Harold Pinter at the RSC: Beyond The Homecoming

Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies avatarPosted on 15th September 2017 by Catriona Fallow15th September 2017

Harold Pinter’s affiliation with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), the impact of the works he produced there, and his artistic relationship with its founding director Peter Hall are typically discussed in relation to early seminal productions such as The Collection (1962), The Homecoming (1965) or Old Times (1971). These mainstage productions at the Aldwych Theatre – the RSC’s first London base from 1961 to 1983 – have become canonical both … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Influence, Legacy, Production, Stage | Tagged Aldwych Theatre, Michael Kustow, Old Times, Peter Hall, Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, The Birthday Party, The Collection, The Dumb Waiter, The Homecoming, Theatregoround
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