Paapa Essiedu, the first black actor to play “Hamlet” with the Royal Shakespeare Company, will be on stage at The Harold Pinter Theatre, until October 20th with four political works by the Pinter: “One for the road”, “New World Order”, “Mountain Language”, and “Ashes to Ashes”. Born in 1990 to a family originally from Ghana,
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Victoria Station
A: “274? Where are you? ” “274? Where are you?” B: “Hello?” A: “274?” B: “Hello?” A: “Is that 274?” B: “That’s me”. A: “Where are you?” B: “What?” A: “I’m talking to 274 right?” B: “Yes, that’s me, I’m 274. Who are you?” A: “Who am I?” B: “Yes…” A: “Who do you think
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Nuke the World!
On that morning of September 2017 Lady Antonia was scribbling a few notes on a yellow paper notebook which had belonged to Harold Pinter. She had never done so before but she was trying to while away time as she waited for a taxi to go to Mass. She had kept those notebooks with loving
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Pinter at the Pinter: David Suchet
Famous for being the longest playing Hercule Poirot on TV, David Suchet is currently busy rehearsing “The Lover” and “The Collection” which will be performed as part of the Pinter at the Pinter review from September 13th to October 20th , directed by Jamie Lloyd. Two miniature comedic masterpieces which Pinter wrote in the sixties
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Pinter at the Pinter: Sir Michael Gambon
Sir Michael Gambon, the legendary Irish-born British actor also famous for having starred Professor Albus Dumbledore in the final six Harry Potter films, lends his voice at the Pinter at the Pinter! The actor’s voice will be used as the part of The Guard in “Mountain Language”. His part has been pre-recorded, and he will not appear on stage in
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Pinter at the Pinter
Tomorrow marks the opening at London’s Harold Pinter Theater of what The Guardian has defined as “a mammoth and unprecedented theatrical venture”. We are talking about “Pinter at The Pinter”, the event which, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Harold Pinter’s death on Christmas Eve 2008, will take place in the London theatre
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Harold Pinter and Taking Sides
Harold and Ronald met back in 1952 at the Hammersmith King’ s Theatre during an audition held by the popular theatre manager and actor Donald Wolfit, well known for his Shakespearean productions. Theirs was a lasting friendship which came to an end only when Pinter died. Sir Ronald Harwood was born in South Africa in
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When Harold Pinter surrendered to Claudia
Penelope Lively is a well-established British author whose novel “Moon tiger” won the prestigious Booker Prize in 1987. Born in Egypt in 1933, Penelope lived there until adolescence. Upon her arrival in post-war England, she graduated in History at Oxford University and began writing novels and stories, initially for youngsters, then going on to become
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Harold Pinter and Cricket
“Cricket has been part of my life since the day I was born.” Harold loved saying this again and again. It was not only a joke; his passion for this old game, probably born in Southern England in the early 1300s, started when he was little more than a child. At that time, he used
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Harold&Michael
Michael Keith Billington is the longest-lived British theater critic. His reviews have been published by “The Guardian” for 47 years and he is the author of the most famous monograph about Harold Pinter. Billington was born in 1939 in Leamington Spa, in Warwickshire. He has been passionate about theater since he was a boy. At
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