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...
Annie Ernaux: French writer wins Nobel Prize in Literature
... 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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Emilia Clarke swaps Game of Thrones' dragons for Chekhov's The Seagull
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Emilia Clarke swaps Game of Thrones' dragons for Chekhov's The Seagull
She is best known for playing the fearless Daenerys Targaryen , Mother of Dragons, in Game of Thrones. But Emilia Clarke says she is " petrified" ahead of her UK stage debut in Chekhov's The Seagull .
" I'm profoundly aware of the fact that there will be people who Love Game of Thrones and are seeing it for that, " she tells The Bbc .
" It's 10 times more frightening because there'll be people wanting to go and say, 'Well she can only act on camera, she clearly can't act On Stage ,' which is obviously the biggest fear. "
But The British actress also hopes that by appearing in a play written in 1895, about a group of lonely Russians living on an isolated country estate, she will encourage a different audience to go to The Theatre .
" Hopefully they'll come and go, 'We just came to see the Mother of Dragons, oh how frustrating, she's not on a dragon, this isn't what I paid for. ' Spoiler: I'm not on a dragon at any point during this play, " she laughs.
" But hopefully what they get, as a kind of little extra, is that they get to enjoy this play that they might not have seen otherwise. "
Clarke plays Nina opposite co-star Tom Rhys Harries, who portrays Trigorin.
But there is another layer of anxiety. After a frantic decade in which Clarke became a global superstar, and lost her beloved father to cancer, finally appearing in The West End is daunting because " it's something I've wanted for so long".
" It's frightening because it's A Dream of mine finally realised, " she says.
All the more so because the production was due to open in March 2020, but closed after just four preview performances when the pandemic shut theatres.
" There is no higher art than theatre, " says the 35-year-old. " I adore it. I absolutely love it. I feel happiest, safest, most At Home . "
Which might seem odd for an actress who has appeared On Stage professionally only once before, in Breakfast at Tiffany's on Broadway in 2013. It did not go well, with Ben Brantley in describing her performance as the glamorous Holly Golightly as " an under-age debutante trying very, very hard to pass for a sophisticated grown-up".
Meanwhile, David Rooney in criticised the " miscasting" of Clarke, writing: " There's neither softness nor fragility in her grating Holly. "
It was a " catastrophic failure" Clarke cheerfully tells me.
" It was just not ready. Was I ready? No, I was definitely not ready. I was a baby. I was So Young and so inexperienced. "
Clarke found fame on screen, cast in HBO's fantasy drama Game of Thrones in 2010, when only two years out of drama school. The Show quickly became notorious for its explicit sex and violence, and Clarke, who was 23 when she started filming, crying before shooting certain " terrifying" nude scenes.
But when asked now if she feels exploited or angry Looking Back at What Happened , she picks her words very carefully. " Regret isn't something I do. It's not something I like.
" I have since not done very much nudity. Read into that what you will. "
And just in case of any doubt for those going to see her On Stage : " There's no nudity in The Seagull . No, no, no. "
Clarke always wanted to be an actress. In The Seagull , Nina is a hopeless romantic who also dreams of being a famous actress. But amid a growing clamour for actors to have lived experience of the characters they are playing, are there any roles she would avoid for risk of causing offence?
" The trickiest thing is, as an actor, the whole point is that you get to try on different characters. Every actor wants to stay as Far Away from a pigeonholing career as they can.
" So to just say, 'I'm only ever going to play aspiring actresses', as an example, is probably a bad route for me to take and something that would end up being unfulfilling. "
Nonetheless, Clarke is savvy enough to know that " We Live in a cancel culture" and " it's an incredibly hot topic".
She says: " If me being in something was preventing someone with a lived experience of being in something, I would 100% not do it. "
Her co-star in The Seagull , Daniel Monks , is disabled. A botched operation in his native Australia when he was 11 left him with a paralysed Right Arm and a partially paralysed right leg, " similar to a cerebral palsy leg" he explains. He is an articulate advocate for disabled actors.
" It is important that only disabled actors play disabled roles in a similar way that I think it's important that only trans actors play trans roles, " he says.
" Obviously in terms of the philosophy of acting, The Ideal is that it's pretend and everyone gets to play everyone. But in this industry and culturally, it's been forever that straight, white, cis, able-bodied mostly men get to play everything. And Then people who are part of minorities not only don't get to play anything, they don't even play themselves.
" I personally know how damaging it is to see lack of representation or inauthentic representation. It really shapes The Way that you see your place In Society . "
The Girl with The Dragon tattoosMonks admits he's never seen Game of Thrones, which suits Clarke just fine. But she will never escape The Show . For one thing, Clarke has three small dragons.
And it will be hard to avoid the planned Game of Thrones prequel, House of The Dragon , which is set to premiere on HBO in August.
Clarke will be watching and is " fascinated" to see what it will be like, before reflecting: " It's going to be weird as hell.
" I'm going to watch this as a fresh viewer because it's [set] a be-jillion years before Our Show , so it's going to feel different. "
And in response to A Story in that Kit Harington will reprise his role as Jon Snow in a Game of Thrones sequel, Clarke says: " He has told me about it. And I know it exists. It's happening. "
Then, perhaps realising she may have said More Than she should have, she adds: " It's been created by Kit As Far as I can understand, so he's in it from the ground up. So What you will be watching, hopefully, if it happens, is certified by Kit Harington . "
Which raises the Question - would she ever consider appearing in a spin-off to Game of Thrones, or is she done with dragons?
" No, I think I'm done, " she says firmly and laughs. Emilia Clarke is ready to move on.
Source of news: bbc.com