Michael Codron, the man who discovered Harold Pinter

Posted in March 8, 2018
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“The Birthday Party” directed by renowned director Ian Rickson, will be staged at London’s Harold Pinter Theatre until April 14th , featuring an exceptional cast including Toby Jones, Zoë Wanamaker, Stephen Mangan and Pearl Mackie. The performance is already a success with critics and the public. It is hard to believe that at the play’s

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An unsuspectable Harold Pinter

Posted in February 27, 2018
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On April 3rd 2003 the American weekly Variety announced that Harold Pinter would write the screenplay for the remake of   “Sleuth”, the 1972 film based on Anthony Shaffer’s play, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring  Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine. The film was screened in cinemas in 2007 and directed by Kenneth Branagh.  Michael

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Pinter the film smuggler

Posted in February 22, 2018
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It was 1964. Harold Pinter was flying from London to New York for the premiere of one of his plays. By chance he was sitting next to Mr Mekas. Jonas Mekas, today ninety-six, is a living legend of cinema. A Lithuanian director, poet and artist, he became  an American citizen and founded Film Culture magazine

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A party between chit chat and repression

Posted in February 14, 2018
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“One evening I was at a party. I approached two young Turkish ladies who were having a conversation: ‘What’s your opinion concerning the tortures being inflicted in your country?‘ They looked at me amazed: ‘Tortures? What tortures?’ ‘Do you mean to say you don’t know that every day dozens of men are tortured in your

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“The Homecoming” by Peter Stein

Posted in February 6, 2018
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“This is maybe Pinter’s darkest work, which confronts the profound difficulties and dangers marking human relationships and above all the precarious relationship between the sexes” This is how Peter Stein – the undisputed Master of theater of the second half of the 20th century – commented “The Homecoming” written by the Nobel laureate in 1964.

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John Travolta: how could I say no to Harold Pinter?

Posted in January 31, 2018
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After having seen him in his white suit and bell bottom pants as Tony Manero in the iconic dance scene in “Saturday Night Fever”, or in the role of Vincent Vega, the ruthless (but not always) criminal in the cult movie “Pulp Fiction” it might seem a little odd to imagine that John Travolta acted

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The Lover: a bourgeois escape or a brilliant choice?

Posted in January 23, 2018
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Richard. Is your lover coming today? Sarah: Mmnn. Richard: What time? Sarah: Three. So begins “The Lover”, a one-act play written by Harold Pinter in 1962 and staged the following year at the Arts Theatre in London, directed by Michael Codron and David Hall, after its first performance on television starring Vivien Merchant, the playwright’s

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The Birthday Party at Harold Pinter Theatre

Posted in January 17, 2018
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Sixty years from the first time it was performed at the London Lyric Opera House, Harold Pinter’s  “The Birthday Party” is once again on stage in England’s capital at the Harold Pinter Theatre from January 9th to April 14th. Following acclaimed performances of “Betrayal” and “Old Times” – superbly played by Kristin Scott Thomas –  renowned

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Betrayal by Harold Pinter

Posted in January 9, 2018
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“Pub. 1977. Spring. Noon. Emma is sitting at a corner table. Jerry approaches with drinks, a pint of bitter for him, a glass of wine for her. He sits. They smile, toast each other silently, drink. He sits back and looks at her. “ So begins “Betrayal“, one of the most celebrated works by the

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The French Lieutenant’s Woman

Posted in December 19, 2017
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We all remember the scene. A mysterious woman wrapped in a cloak, standing alone at the end of a wind-swept pier, the ocean waves beating against it, resolutely looking at the horizon, defying danger. And then that face, unforgettable, tragic, that powerful and piercing gaze. Set in a landscape which evokes the paintings of Turner,

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