Harold Pinter
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 15 years ago |
Date of birth | October 10,1930 |
Zodiac sign | Libra |
Born | Metropolitan Borough Of Hackney |
Date of died | December 24,2008 |
Died | Hammersmith Hospital |
London | |
United Kingdom | |
Job | Actor |
Playwright | |
Author | |
Poet | |
Film director | |
Screenwriter | |
Theatre Director | |
Political activist | |
Social activist | |
Education | Royal Academy of Dramatic Art |
Hackney Downs School | |
The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama | |
Spouse | Antonia Fraser |
Vivien Merchant | |
Children | Daniel Brand Pinter |
Daniel Brand | |
Plays | The Birthday Party |
The Caretaker | |
Betrayal | |
The Homecoming | |
Influences | Samuel Beckett |
William Shakespeare | |
Franz Kafka | |
Place of burial | Kensal Green Cemetery, London, United Kingdom |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 405124 |
Complete works
The Dwarfs
Various voices
Room and the Dumb Waiter
The Proust screenplay
The Short Plays of Harold Pinter
The Birthday Party & The Room
Conversations with Pinter
Collected poems and prose
Plays Three
Harold Pinter Plays 3: The Homecoming; Old Times; No Man's Land
100 Poems by 100 Poets: An Anthology
Death etc.
The birthday party, and The room
Six poems for A
Mountain Language & Ashes to Ashes
Precisely
Plays four
La lune se couche
Plays One
Pinter's People
The Tragedy of King Lear
I know the place
Plays two
Poems
Collected screenplays
Not One More Death
La Fiesta De Cumpleanos, La Habitacion, Un Leve Dolor, El Blanco Y Negro, El Examen
The screenplay of The French lieutenant's woman
Party time ; and, The new world order
slight ache, and other plays
The Disappeared and Other Poems
Poems and prose, 1949-1977
Complete works: three
Five Screenplays
Ten Early Poems
The comfort of strangers
Plays
Prodosia
Trouble in the Works
Metropolitan Borough of Hackney
Sleuth
The Go- Between
Betrayal
The Handmaid's Tale
The Last Tycoon
The Quiller Memorandum
The Pumpkin Eater
Langrishe, Go Down
Accident
Turtle Diary
The Homecoming
Mansfield Park
The Trial
The Comfort of Strangers
The Caretaker
The Birthday Party
The Tailor of Panama
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
The Heat of the Day
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Rogue Male
Butley
Wit
Breaking the Code
Modesty Blaise
Reunion
Pinter People
The Collection
Mojo
A Night Out
Catastrophe
Landskap
The Servant
Tony Award for Best Play
Laurence Olivier American Airlines Award for Best New Play
Franz Kafka Prize
BAFTA Fellowship
Laurence Olivier Award for Society of London Theatre Special Award
BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay
Shakespeare Prize
BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay
New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play
New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play
Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best New Play
David di Donatello for Best Foreign Screenplay
British Academy Television Writer Award
New York Drama Critics' Circle Special Citation
Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lifetime Achievement
Harold Pinter Life story
Harold Pinter CH CBE was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanned more than 50 years.
Obituary: Sir Michael Gambon, star of The Singing Detective and Harry Potter
... Fantasy worldAnd there was further acclaim for his role as Jerry in Peter Hall s production of Harold Pinter s Betrayal, which opened on the South Bank in 1978...
Michael Rosen 'honoured' to win PEN Pinter Prize
... The prize was set up in memory of Nobel laureate playwright Harold Pinter in 2009 by English PEN, a charity that says it defends freedom of expression and celebrates literature...
Julian Sands obituary: Free-spirited actor whose career started with a kiss
... " In 2011, Sands appeared on stage at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for a A Celebration of Harold Pinter, directed by his old colleague, friend and former flatmate John Malkovich...
WhatsOnStage Awards: Jodie Comer and Lucie Jones among winners
... The winners in fullBest performer in a musical - Courtney Bowman, Legally Blonde, Regent s Park Open Air TheatreBest supporting performer in a musical - Lauren Drew, Legally Blonde, Regent s Park Open Air TheatreBest performer in a play - Jodie Comer, Prima Facie, Harold Pinter TheatreBest supporting performer in a play - Gwyneth Keyworth, To Kill a Mockingbird, Gielgud TheatreBest takeover performance - Lucie Jones, Wicked, Apollo Victoria TheatreBest professional debut performance - Joe Locke, The Trials, Donmar WarehouseBest new musical - Bonnie & Clyde the Musical, Arts TheatreBest musical revival - Rodgers & Hammerstein s Oklahoma! Young VicBest new play - Prima Facie, Harold Pinter TheatreBest play revival - Cock, Ambassadors TheatreBest West End show - Six, Vaudeville TheatreBest regional production - Billy Elliot the Musical, Curve, LeicesterBest off-West End Production - But I m A Cheerleader: The Musical, The Turbine TheatreBest concert event - Stephen Sondheim s Old Friends, Sondheim TheatreBest direction - Phelim McDermott, My Neighbour Totoro, Barbican TheatreBest musical direction/supervision - Bruce O Neil and Matt Smith, My Neighbour Totoro, Barbican TheatreBest casting direction - Pippa Ailion and Natalie Gallacher, Spring Awakening, Almeida TheatreBest choreography - Arlene Phillips, Grease, Dominion TheatreBest costume design - Gabriella Slade, The Cher Show, UK tourBest lighting design - Jessica Hung Han Yun, My Neighbour Totoro, Barbican TheatreBest set design - Tom Pye and Basil Twist, My Neighbour Totoro, Barbican TheatreBest sound design - Tony Gayle, My Neighbour Totoro, Barbican TheatreBest video design - Joshua Thorson, Rodgers & Hammerstein s Oklahoma! Young VicBest graphic design - Studio Doug, Prima Facie, Harold Pinter TheatreRelated Topics...
A Little Life: Hanya Yanagihara novel heads to London stage
... The stage adaptation will play for 12 weeks at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London from 25 March...
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... Past literary winners have included novelists such as Ernest Hemingway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Toni Morrison, poets such as Louise Gluck, Pablo Neruda, Joseph Brodsky and Rabindranath Tagore, and playwrights including Harold Pinter and Eugene O Neill...
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A Little Life: Hanya Yanagihara novel heads to London stage
By Steven McIntoshEntertainment reporter
A novel which developed a passionate following among young audiences will be adapted for The Stage in a new West End production starring James Norton .
A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara , follows four classmates from a small US college who move to New York to pursue their careers. It deals with complex themes including abuse, race, privilege, sexuality, friendship and addiction.
The Novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2015. It did not win, But became a word-of-mouth hit after striking a chord with younger People - Something which can rarely be said for the kinds of books normally shortlisted for the prestigious literature prize.
A Little Life's devoted fanbase who interviewed Yanagihara for her podcast, telling her The Book had " changed her life".
The Stage adaptation will play for 12 weeks at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London from 25 March. The West End premiere will mark The Show 's English-language Debut - its director Ivo van Hove has previously only staged it in Dutch.
" The Book is a kind of a mystery, because it became a huge bestseller, " he tells Bbc News . " It's a little bit strange because it talks about cruel things, about a traumatic experience that haunts somebody for the rest of his life. "
" But After All these years, every night, theatres are full, People are moved, sometimes angry, But it creates a very visceral reaction towards it. "
Sales of The Novel , Yanagihara's second, were modest following its publication - But it gradually became popular via word-of-mouth, ultimately selling More Than 2. 5 million copies. (For context, the author's 2013 Debut , The People in The Trees , had sold only a few thousand copies. )
The Stage adaptation of A Little Life will star Norton - who is known for McMafia and Happy Valley - alongside It's A Sin star Omari Douglas , Bridgerton's Luke Thompson and The Witcher 's Zach Wyatt.
The Dutch version played four performances (with English surtitles) at the Edinburgh Festival this year. It enjoyed warm reviews from critics, despite its often grim subject Matter .
Five stars, saying in its review: " This devastating play is emotionally gruelling. But that doesn't detract from how transfixing and heartrending it is. "
There was which described The Play as " mesmerising" in its four-star review, But added: " This is not a show for the faint-hearted. "
Some critics also noted that The Four -hour runtime could put off ticket-buyers.
Van Hove says the West End version will be slightly shorter, at 3hrs 40mins, But points Out There is so much material to reproduce. " The Book is 720 pages, " he points out, " But it is a page-turner. "
Norton , Douglas, Thompson and Wyatt will play the Four Friends at the centre of The Book - prodigious lawyer Jude, struggling artist JB, aspiring actor Willem, and successful architect Malcolm, respectively.
" I think I have a very good team of actors, " says van Hove. " I really took my time to talk to People , do auditions, because it's very intense to play it, and I Hope I have found a group that can trust each other. "
I Am afraid to say that I approached Hanya Yanagihara 's A Little Life with trepidation. A 720-page doorstopper of a book by a writer I had not come across.
How wrong I was.
I devoured this story of four male friends living in New York and the Dark Secrets of Child Abuse and self-harm in The Life of one of them, Jude.
Yanagihara certainly makes her characters suffer. Drink, drugs, rape and amputation also feature.
" The Book is not cheerful, " she told me when I interviewed her in 2015 when The Novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize . " But I hope it doesn't feel like a piling on of miseries for the sake of misery. "
Some readers, I Am well aware, may find A Little Life oppressive and depressing. At times it is melodramatic too.
But for me, it was an immersive and intimate reading experience. " I did Want It to feel like a walled garden, a place that you couldn't Get Out of, " said Yanagihara.
And I thought one of The Book 's great strengths was its depiction of The Interior lives of the characters. Yanagihara takes you deeply into The Thoughts and feelings of the mysterious Jude and his friends Willem, Malcolm and JB.
So I Am intrigued to see how that can be reproduced in The Theatre .
When we spoke a stage adaptation was not on the cards, But Yanagihara did tell me she did not think A Little Life could " exist" as a film.
But , she revealed: " I would love to have it made as a mini-series. I think a middle aged Jude would be very good with Christian Bale in The Role . But I also like The American actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt. "
Van Hove says it is his " dream" to stage The Play in English, adding: " I'm really Looking Forward to seeing how it will work when it's in the original language, that's a prospect that I cannot wait to start. "
Yanagihara says she is " thrilled" that the production was heading to London, describing it as having " The Most extraordinary cast I could have hoped for".
Given The Book tapped into a younger demographic, does van Hove expect The Play will attract larger numbers of the Young People theatre sometimes struggles to reach?
" That happened actually when we did it in Amsterdam, " he replies, " a lot of Young People came to it. " Van Hove recalls the reaction of some young actors he was working with when they found out he was involved.
" I was doing West Side Story and there were a lot of People who were 17 or 18 in The Cast , and lots of them were reading The Book , " he remembers. " When they discovered I had done it they almost fainted.
" It has the potential to attract a diversity of People , because The Cast is also culturally Diverse - it's very close to The Book . "
Source of news: bbc.com