Superfluities Redux
A Theatre Surrounds a City:
Vienna's Burgtheater
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Monday, 07 April 2008 Movie of the WeekBack in the day (more precisely 1976), I was led to think of the theatre as a career when I saw John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson on Broadway in Peter Hall's production of No Man's Land by Harold Pinter. That was 32 years ago now. Perhaps sentimentally I continue to think of it as one of Pinter's most meditative, elegaic plays. And you certainly can't beat that cast. Theatre is ephemeral and over the years the memory has faded somewhat, though the power of the work continued to claw. Fortunately memory can get a poke in the side too. Below is a video of the 90-minute BBC television version of the play, recorded in 1976 with the original cast. The image and sound are a little hazy, but no more so than my memory: Over the weekend I updated my own Web site, with new material on the biography and news pages. Posted in /Videos |