Review: Harold Pinter

Subject: Harold Pinter
From: number 6
Date: 13 Oct 05 - 08:22 AM

Hats off for Harold Pinter in winning the Nobel Prizse in Literature .... well deserved indeed.

sIx

Subject: RE: Review: Harold Pinter
From: alanabit
Date: 13 Oct 05 - 10:12 AM

Quite right. It is long overdue recognition of a lifetime of achievement and a commitmemnt to human decency.

Subject: RE: Review: Harold Pinter
From: scouse
Date: 13 Oct 05 - 11:16 AM

About bloody time, He should have got it years ago..As Aye,Phil..

Subject: RE: Review: Harold Pinter
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 14 Oct 05 - 08:14 AM

meaningful silence

Subject: RE: Review: Harold Pinter
From: Michael
Date: 14 Oct 05 - 08:16 AM

Pause...

Subject: RE: Review: Harold Pinter
From: woodsie
Date: 14 Oct 05 - 08:58 AM

I still think that "The Caretaker" is a masterpiece. The film version with Robert Shaw, Donald Pleasance & Alan Bates is excellent. A true trip into the inner space of human interaction.

Subject: RE: Review: Harold Pinter
From: Jeanie
Date: 14 Oct 05 - 03:52 PM

Likewise "Betrayal" - I went to see it last week at Colchester Rep theatre - never seen that play before. It was superb - the various stages of an affair going back in time from the end of it to when it all began, with all the "inner space of human interaction" between the 3 characters - I do like that phrase, Woodsie, well put ! What I liked especially were all the motifs that kept appearing and being intertwined from one scene to the next and all the things un-said, just as in life. A very clever man with great insight.

- jeanie

Subject: RE: Review: Harold Pinter
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 14 Oct 05 - 04:15 PM

will Harold have to go Sidcup to get his papers?

Subject: RE: Review: Harold Pinter
From: number 6
Date: 14 Oct 05 - 04:54 PM

"The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there." ... the opening line by Harold Pinter from the movie The Go Between (in which he did the screenplay).

Yes Jeanie ... he is a clever man, with great insight.

sIx

Subject: RE: Review: Harold Pinter
From: Joybell
Date: 14 Oct 05 - 06:17 PM

The Birthday Party is my (shudder!) favourite. Joy

Subject: RE: Review: Harold Pinter
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 15 Oct 05 - 01:14 PM

I'm not a Pinter fan. Yes, I know, he gives us a wonderful insight into the human condition, BUT, it's all so slow and dreary. My feeling can be summed up by Howard Jacobson in his novel "Peeping Tom" where the central character is recalling the days that he and his wife used to go to West End plays. He relates how, while attending a particular play ( he thinks it was probably Pinter ), they left before a word was spoken! I know how he feels.

Subject: RE: Review: Harold Pinter
From: akenaton
Date: 15 Oct 05 - 08:20 PM

Six...Glad you appreciate Pinter. A great thinker and writer.

"We are in a terrible dip at the moment, a kind of abyss, because the assumption is that politics are all over. That's what the propaganda says. But I don't believe the propaganda. I believe that politics, our political consciousness and our political intelligence are not all over, because if they are, we are really doomed. I can't myself live like this. I've been told so often that I live in a free country, I'm damn well going to be free. By which I mean I'm going to retain my independence of mind and spirit, and I think that's what's obligatory upon all of us. Most political systems talk in such vague language, and it's our responsibility and our duty as citizens of our various countries to exercise acts of critical scrutiny upon that use of language. Of course, that means that one does tend to become rather unpopular. But to hell with that"

Who says politics and Art (or folk music) don't mix ...Ake

Subject: RE: Review: Harold Pinter
From: number 6
Date: 15 Oct 05 - 09:01 PM

Tunesmith ... I do repect your opinon on Pinter, but I must reply I have seen many, many plays were the dialogue meant absolutely nothing. Pinter (I feel) says much more in 'less'.

Thanks for your post Ake ... we definately need more 'artists' like Pinter today.

"The Nobel Academy praised Pinter as an author who "uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms."

sIx

Subject: RE: Review: Harold Pinter
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 15 Oct 05 - 11:25 PM

Seldom performed west of the pond; mostly unknown in the US outside of univeristy adulation circles. I once performed in one of his scripts...don't recall which.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: Review: Harold Pinter
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Oct 05 - 10:33 AM

Well, there's a yawner of a Nobel for lit.

Subject: RE: Review: Harold Pinter
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Oct 05 - 10:34 AM

Actually, let me be more specific. I find Pinter's work to be tedious and pretentious.

Subject: RE: Review: Harold Pinter
From: number 6
Date: 16 Oct 05 - 01:11 PM

Your opinions are appreciated Guest .. this is a free forum and that's what it is all about. Actually I certainly don't expect all to apprecate the works of Pinter, as that in itself would be dreadfully boring.

sIx