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Thursday, 05 February 2009
Although I promised to write only a
short entry on Harold Pinter's death for this blog, when the
Brooklyn
Rail asked for a few paragraphs on the playwright as part
of a collective memorial, I couldn't refuse. They've just been published
in
the February issue of the paper; they begin:
On my first visit to New York in 1976, I saw two plays – one in
the
afternoon, one in the evening on this quick trip into and out of town
– and
both have stayed with me. I was 14, and thought after I saw them that
perhaps this drama place was where I'd like to have a career, that perhaps
writing plays was something I could spend a life doing. That night I saw
Richard Foreman's production of Threepenny Opera at Lincoln Center,
but a
few hours before, I saw John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson in the Broadway
premiere of Harold Pinter's No Man's Land.
You can read the entire piece here; it's about halfway down the page. Also
contributing to the article are Caridad
Svich, Jason
Grote and others.
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