Silence, Pinter speaks

Posted in March 28, 2019
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We are in 2004. During Harold Pinter’s last trip to Italy. He has travelled over to see Roberto Andò’s production of “Old Times” at Milan’s Piccolo Teatro. And that April Harold gave an interview to the newspaper  “Il Giornale”. Here is an extract… Tall, straight, a generous smile and vigilant eyes which have observed and

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The power hothouse

Posted in March 21, 2019
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A guest who passes on to the next world and a suspicious birth. These events are a real nuisance for Roote. And on Christmas day as well. So begins “The Hothouse”, one of the most disturbing and cruel – but sometimes comical- works by Harold Pinter who wrote the play when he was 28 .

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Juliette Binoche’s betrayal

Posted in March 14, 2019
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“…then there are those times she becomes a Pinter dream woman: mysterious, knowing and at least slightly the moral superior of the men…” Her name is Juliette Binoche, and in November 2000, “The New York Time” used these words to describe her debut at Broadway’s American Airlines Theatre in one of Harold Pinter’s most celebrated

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Langrishe, Go Down

Posted in March 5, 2019
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The film “Langrishe, Go Down” is a little-known jewel of a film, scripted by Harold Pinter and first broadcast by the BBC in 1978. Filmed in a village in southern Ireland two hours south of Dublin, the movie is based on the 1966 acclaimed novel by the great Irish author Aidan Higgins who won the

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