In autumn 1943, in just fifteen days Jean Paul Sartre wrote one of him most successful plays: “Huis clos”, “No Exit”. The play was first performed at Paris’ Vieux-Colombier and then went on to be performd in the US where , in 1947, it was awarded the prize for best foreign work. “When you write
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Pinter’s duck
“Who’s having the duck?”. With these words the celebration of an important anniversary gets underway under the Pinteresque magnifying glass in “Celebration”, the play written by Harold Pinter in 1999 and performed for the first time the following year at London’s Almeida Theatre. In the top restaurant in an unidentified city, husband and wife celebrate
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Pinter at the Pinter: Tom Hiddleston
“Betrayal is a masterpiece and Jamie Lloyd’s “Pinter at the Pinter” season is something magnificent. I am happy they asked me to be a part of it”. With these words the famous British actor Tom Hiddleston commented his upcoming performance on the stage of the Harold Pinter Theatre (from March 5th to June 3rd 2019)
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Peppino and Harold
A comedian and a genius: Peppino De Filippo. An amazing artist who, in the words of Fellini, “any theatre in the world would envy us he is so seductive and unique”. He was an actor and a dramatist among the most loved of the 20th century. Born and raised on the stage, De Filippo owes
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Harold’s Reunion
Harold Pinter never wrote an original film. But as he himself said: ”I’ve enjoyed adapting other people’s books very much…” And of the 24 screenplays he wrote there is one, which few know about, which brought to the screen a film only too often underestimated but much loved by Harold. The film in question is
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Happy Birthday Harold!
Jeremy Irons, Kristin Scott Thomas, David Suchet, Tom Hiddleston, Lia Williams, Paapa Essiedu, Gary Kemp, Russell Tovey and many more took part in “Happy Birthday, Harold”, the event which took place on October 10th to celebrate Harold Pinter, who would have been 88, and his unforgettable works. Lady Antonia Fraser also took part in the
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Harold and those bourgeois tribulations
No screenwriter could tell the ordeals suffered by Mrs Armitage better than Harold Pinter. An elegant bourgeois woman living in 1960s London, Jo Armitage is confused and on the verge of a nervous breakdown, having to deal with her failed marriages, a throng of children and the infidelity of her latest husband, be it real
Read MoreHappy Birthday Harold Pinter Theatre!
This week marks the anniversary of the theatre named after the great British playwright. 137 years have gone by since October 15th 1981,when in Pantom Street, the Royal Comedy Theatre opened its doors with the performance of the comedy “The Mascotte” attended by the Prince and Princess of Wales. Designed by the famous theatre architect
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A disturbing “Monologue”
From October 25th the Harold Pinter Theatre, as part of the “Pinter at the Pinter” review, will be putting on “Monologue”, a short work originally written for television by Harold Pinter. Broadcast for the first time by the BBC in1973 directed by Christopher Morhan, the work was masterfully interpreted by Henry Woolf, one of the
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Pinter at the Pinter: Russell Tovey
The famous British actor Russell Tovey is part of the exceptional cast of London’s “Pinter at the Pinter” season. Until Ocotber 20th, the star of the TV series “Being Human” and “Looking” will be on The Harold Pinter Theatre stage- alongside David Suchet, John MacMillan and Hayley Squires – in two of Harold Pinter’s short
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