Pinter is 75
Alan Bennett made a cheeky suggestion, on the occasion of Pinter’s 50th birthday, that the best way to commemorate it would be with a two-minute silence. [He is most famous for his pregnant pauses in his plays.]
For his 75th, Pinter is being celebrated in Dublin with performances of Old Times and performances of plays, poetry and prose. Michael Gambon is coming from New York, Jeremy Irons is from Budapest. Other participants include Derek Jacobi, John Hurt, Stephen Rea and Penelope Wilton. Playwrights Tom Stoppard, Frank McGuinness and Conor McPherson are the guests at a Sunday night dinner at the Unicorn.
On Monday night, BBC Radio 3 premieres a new work, Voices: a collaborative venture between Pinter and composer James Clarke that deals with man’s inhumanity to man.
An article by Michael Billington here with a gripe on why he isn’t being celebrated in London.
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About me
I'm a playwright and investment analyst. I have a broad range of interests: food, gardening, innovation & intellectual property, sustainability, architecture & design, writing and the arts. I sit on the board of Talawa Theatre Company and advise a CIS investment trust on socially responsible investments.
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Recent Work
Recent plays include, for theatre: Nakamitsu, Yellow Gentlemen, Lost in Peru, Lemon Love. For radio: Places in Between (R4), Patent Breaking Life Saving (WS).
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Nakamitsu
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Yellow Gentlemen
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