“Something is happening”. Yes, Deborah is awakening, in fact she is reawakening…. from a long sleep which has lasted thirty years. This is how “A kind of Alaska” begins. The work is a harrowing, and paradoxically sometimes funny, one-act play which Pinter wrote in 1982, by his own admission inspired by the book “Awakenings” written
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This is Klimowski. And he is not afraid.
“A few words about Klimowski? Impossible. You can’t capture an imagination such as his in a sentence or two. He is a free man and you’ll never catch him. He looks at things head-on but at the same time inside out and upside down, round the corner and through a shattered keyhole. His eye is
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Harold Pinter and David Mamet
The news was given just a few days ago. Playwright, screenwriter and dramatist David Mamet, 1984 winner of the Pulitzer prize will be bringing the Harvey Weinstein scandal to the theatre. Details are scarce: in an interview with “The Chicago Tribune”, Mamet only revealed that the project will go by the title “Bitter Wheat”. The
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Michael Codron, the man who discovered Harold Pinter
“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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