Sarah Hanly from Ireland is the winner of the 2019 “Harold Pinter Playwright Award”, the prize given out annually by Harold Pinter’s widow to support upcoming playwrights. Lady Antonia commented: … “I believe that the Pinter Commission is exactly what Harold would have wanted. Because he had experienced the devastating rejection of his early work,
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Silence, Pinter speaks
We are in 2004. During Harold Pinter’s last trip to Italy. He has travelled over to see Roberto Andò’s production of “Old Times” at Milan’s Piccolo Teatro. And that April Harold gave an interview to the newspaper “Il Giornale”. Here is an extract… Tall, straight, a generous smile and vigilant eyes which have observed and
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The power hothouse
A guest who passes on to the next world and a suspicious birth. These events are a real nuisance for Roote. And on Christmas day as well. So begins “The Hothouse”, one of the most disturbing and cruel – but sometimes comical- works by Harold Pinter who wrote the play when he was 28 .
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Juliette Binoche’s betrayal
“…then there are those times she becomes a Pinter dream woman: mysterious, knowing and at least slightly the moral superior of the men…” Her name is Juliette Binoche, and in November 2000, “The New York Time” used these words to describe her debut at Broadway’s American Airlines Theatre in one of Harold Pinter’s most celebrated
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Langrishe, Go Down
The film “Langrishe, Go Down” is a little-known jewel of a film, scripted by Harold Pinter and first broadcast by the BBC in 1978. Filmed in a village in southern Ireland two hours south of Dublin, the movie is based on the 1966 acclaimed novel by the great Irish author Aidan Higgins who won the
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Liv (Ullmann) and Harold’s “Old Times”
Liv Ullmann celebrated her 80th birthday two months ago and a few lines are not enough to describe a film icon such as her. Ingmar Bergman defined her “my Stradivarius”, and he made her into his muse after seeing her on stage in Henrik Ibsen’s “Doll’s House”. The partnership between Ingmar and Liv, one of
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Bruno Ganz’s “Homecoming”
The news is only a few days old, Bruno Ganz, one of the best-known names of German cinema, appreciated by the critics and loved by the public, has passed away. Born in Zurich in 1941 to a Swiss father and Italian mother, he moved to Germany in his early twenties where he began a theatrical
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Silence runs down the line
A phone ringing in the dead of night. A man who isn’t answering. A phone which continues to ring. It might seem like the opening of a horror film classic. But it isn’t. It is the start of “Problem”, a short narrative written by Harold Pinter in 1976 in which the evocative power of a
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Harold Pinter’s turtles
A great director, two award-winning actors and an impeccable screenplay (as well as a poster with a wonderful image by Andy Warhol): these are the ingredients of “Turtle Diary” a pleasant, well-made and little-known film written by Harold Pinter and based on the novel by American author Russell Hoban. The film, directed by John Irvin
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Danny Dyer: a film dedicated to Harold Pinter
British actor Danny Dyer is getting ready to reveal and explore the life and art of Harold Pinter in a documentary produced by the BBC, which will be broadcast on Sky Arts at the end of the year, The news was given by “Deadline” with no additional information. Born in East London in 1977, Danny
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