Pinter in Japan

Posted in December 5, 2017
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In the Land of the Rising Sun Harold Pinter’s works are rarely performed. It could be because he is so Pinteresque, because of his peculiarity in portraying human existence through dialogues full of silence and ambiguity which can disorient and worry the Japanese  spectator who is little accustomed to the “theatre of the absurd”. But

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Harold Pinter in Turin

Posted in November 28, 2017
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“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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Lady Antonia Fraser

Posted in November 22, 2017
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  The death of Harold Pinter was announced by Antonia Margaret Caroline Pakenham on Christmas Day 2008. She did so with a letter to The Guardian. Just a few words, expressing the privilege of having lived with the great English playwright for over 35 years. Better known as Lady Antonia Fraser, due to the surname

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Pinter and mountain language

Posted in October 27, 2017
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An open supporter of civil rights, always on the side of the oppressed and a strenuous defender of human rights, in 1985 Pinter set out on a mission in Turkey with the famous director and playwright Arthur Miller.

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