qtd. in
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Literary responses | Harold Pinter | Peter Hall
, its first director, likened the play to Mozart
's music for its precision, lyricism, and sudden descents into pain which are quickly over because of a healthy sense of the ridiculous. qtd. in Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Occupation | Margaret Drabble | She had decided while at school that she was going to be an actress. In Stratford both she and Clive Swift acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company
under Peter Hall
, who was setting out... |
Performance of text | Harold Pinter | HP
's play Betrayal opened at the National Theatre
(on the smaller Lyttelton stage), directed by Peter Hall
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Performance of text | Samuel Beckett | The first production of SB
's Waiting for Godot in English, directed by Peter Hall
, opened at the Arts Theatre
in London. Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992. 410 Hartnoll, Phyllis, editor. The Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 4th ed., Oxford University Press, 1983. 366 |
Performance of text | Harold Pinter | The Aldwych Theatre
put on a play called The Collection, collaboratively adapted by Harold Pinter
and Peter Hall
from Pinter's recent television play with the same title. Billington, Michael. Harold Pinter. Faber and Faber, 2007. 142 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Performance of text | Harold Pinter | The Royal Shakespeare Company
scored a notable success with HP
's play The Homecoming, written the previous year, directed by Peter Hall
. Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ . 3 June 2009 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Performance of text | Harold Pinter | |
Performance of text | Harold Pinter | HP
's play Old Times was first produced by Peter Hall
at the Aldwych Theatre
. Billington, Michael. Harold Pinter. Faber and Faber, 2007. 219 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Performance of text | Harold Pinter | HP
's play No Man's Land opened at the National Theatre
: a two-hander employing the theatrical eminences John Gielgud
and Ralph Richardson
, directed by Peter Hall
. Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada, 2010. 15-17 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Reception | Pam Gems | The play's first director, Howard Davies
, found it difficult to believe that such a rude play could have been written by a middle-aged mother of four. Gardner, Lyn. “Obituaries. Pam Gems”. The Guardian, 17 May 2011, p. 34. 34 |
Textual Production | Harold Pinter | This play reached print the same year. Its origins lay in the story of a Jewish friend of Pinter's from Hackney who married a gentile, emigrated, and kept his marriage secret from his family. Hall |
Textual Production | Edna O'Brien | EOB
has written at least eight screenplays, including seven teleplays between 1963 and 1981. In 1966 she and Desmond Davis
adapted her short story A Woman at the Seaside as the screenplay Time Lost and... |
Textual Production | Mary Wesley | It appeared exactly a year after she had finished the first draft (working title Period Piece) and put away the manuscript (written in ink on paper of A4 size, with lines but without margins)... |
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