Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise were amongst the audience at London’s Royal Court on that summer evening of 1995 when the twenty-five year-old playwright Jez Butterwoth, debuted with his first work “Mojo”, directed by Ian Rickson, also director of many of Harold Pinter’s works. The play was a success with enthusiastic reviews, and the young
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Harold Pinter: truth in art, the truth in life
Below are extracts from the speech Harold Pinter gave in 2005 on the occasion of the acceptance of the Nobel Prize for Literature. A warning to all of us, as people and as citizens. Because today more than ever we have the duty keep a critical minds and awareness alive, and never cease to search
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The time Quentin Crisp inspired Pinter
“You can never be too sure of these univeristy productions, the quality varies considerably… but this young author has hit the target”. So wrote the Bristol Evening World in May 1957 on the day after the performance of “The Room,” Harold Pinter’s first theatre production. His dear friend, Henry Woolf, who had to present a
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Josef K. and Mister Pinter
“Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.” Franz Kafka enthusiasts, but not only, will have recognized in these few words the opening of one of the most captivating novels of 20th century literature: “ The trial”. Written between 1914 and 1917 it was pubished
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