Billington, Michael. “Fate meets human flaws”. Guardian Weekly, p. 16.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Edna O'Brien | Reviewer Michael Billington
especially admired the vigour and irony of O'Brien's language. Billington, Michael. “Fate meets human flaws”. Guardian Weekly, p. 16. 16 |
Literary responses | Louise Page | Most reviewers preferred the first part. Michael Billington
, reviewing for The Guardian, praised the play as less an anti-war diatribe than a feeling of the texture of ordinary lives. Eisen, Kurt. “Louise Page”. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. A Research and Production Source Book, edited by William W. Demastes, Greenwood Press, pp. 291-00. 293 |
Literary responses | Louise Page | LP
was so moved that she wept as she wrote this play. She later perceived an autobiographical element in it. Page, Louise. Plays: 1. Methuen. xii |
Literary responses | Winsome Pinnock | In 2018 critic Michael Billington
described the play as insightful, honest, and shocking. Its shock was topical: audiences gasped when a character told he can escape deportation by securing his citizenship for fifty pounds bitterly... |
Literary responses | Winsome Pinnock | Michael Billington
wrote that Wine in the Wilderness is about the moral value of personal truth, while Wateris about the commercial value of artistic lies. Billington, Michael. “White out”. theguardian.com. |
Literary responses | Winsome Pinnock | Michael Billington
in the Guardian called the whole ensemble an engrossing evening and a potent reminder that theatre, among its myriad other functions, has a mission to inform. “Winsome Pinnock”. Playwrights. |
Textual Features | Harold Pinter | Michael Billington
in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography wrote that Pinter here staked out his own particular theatrical territory, Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Features | Harold Pinter | In this play's three apparently naturalistic acts, a man named Stanley is tracked down in a seaside boarding-house by two strangers, the Jewish Goldberg and the Irish McCann. They turn up on his birthday and... |
Literary responses | Harold Pinter | This play met with European as well as British success and was filmed in 1963. The excellent reviews, a complete reversal from the catastrophic ones for Pinter's previous London opening, are ascribed by Michael Billington |
Literary responses | Harold Pinter | Bernard Levin
called the play, in a revival of 1978, unendurable. Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada. 93 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Harold Pinter | Nevertheless, reviews in the daily and Sunday papers were bad (including those of Bernard Levin
and, more surprisingly, Michael Billington
). Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada. 101-2, 112 |
Literary responses | Harold Pinter | Michael Billington
suggested in the ODNB that Pinter's reputation and career might have developed differently had this play been seen by the public at the time of its completion. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Features | Harold Pinter | According to Michael Billington
, this mesmerizing play . . . starts as a domestic inquisition and opens up to admit the horrors of twentieth-century history. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada. 216 |
Textual Features | Harold Pinter | Antonia Fraser
called The Rooma savage, melancholy play which ends in appalling on stage physical violence. None of Pinter's other mature plays do this: he learned to keep the violence either offstage or in... |
Health | Harold Pinter | A year or two into the new millennium HP
began to get indigestion and to feel weak and exhausted. An endoscopy revealed oesophagal cancer. He planned for chemotherapy, then surgery. In February 2002 he learned... |
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