“The Cartier-Bresson of theatre photographers” is how he was defined by Terry Hands, the famous theatre director who for thirteen years directed the Royal Shakespeare Company. And to think that Ivan Kyncl became a photographer almost by chance. He arrived in London at 27 years of age from what was then Czechoslovakia with just a
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Happy Birthday Alan Ayckbourn!
“What he has given to the theatre is immeasurable.” It was with these words that twenty years ago Harold Pinter referred to the great British playwright who is 80 years old tomorrow. Born in Hampstead (London) on April 12, 1939, Ayckbourn began his career in the world of theatre at 17 when he started work
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Pinter at the Pinter
Twenty works by the British playwright Harold Pinter will be performed at the London theatre named after him on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of his death on Christmas eve 2008. The unprecedented event will take place between September 6th 2018 and February 23rd 2019 at the Harold Pinter Theatre under the artistic guide
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Lady Antonia confers award to Alistair McDowall
Young British playwright Alistair McDowall won the 2018 edition of the “Harold Pinter Playwright Award”, the prize established by Harold Pinter’s wife to support a new generation of playwrights. Lady Antonia commented: “I believe this award is exactly what Harold would have wanted. Because he had experienced the devastating rejection of his early work, he
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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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Harold Pinter in Turin
“He moved us with his cutting words, he made us smile and he made us laugh, his political analyses punched us straight in the gut taking no short cuts.” This is what journalist Sara Strippoli wrote about Harold Pinter in the “la Repubblica” newspaper on March 13th 2006. Pinter had just been awarded the Nobel
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In memory of Sir Peter Hall
On September 11, at the age of 86, Peter Hall died in London.
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Beckett’s “Catastrophe”
An absolute must-see. Or see again.
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