The plays of the late Nobel laureate Harold Pinter have formed part of the canon of world theatre since the 1960s. Frequently revived on the professional stage, and studied on almost every Theatre ...Studies course, his importance and influence is hard to overestimate. This Critical Companion offers an assessment of Pinter's entire body of work for the stage, appraising his skill as a dramatist and considering his impact and legacy. Through a clear focus on issues of theatricality and the effect of the plays in performance The Theatre of Harold Pinter considers Pinter's chief narrative concerns and offers a unifying theme through which over four decades of work may be understood. Plays are considered in themed chapters that follow the chronological sequence of work, illuminating the development of his aesthetic and concerns. The volume features too a series of essays from other leading scholars presenting different critical perspectives on the work, including Harry Burton on Pinter's early drama; Ann Hall on Revisiting Pinter's Women; Chris Megson on Pinter's Memory Plays of the 1970s, and Basil Chiasson on Neoliberalism and Democracy.
A song for the past De Ambrogi, Marco
The Lancet,
06/2024, Letnik:
403, Številka:
10442
Journal Article, Book Review
Recenzirano
Ruby (Ophelia Lovibond) is bored by her marriage with Dennis, towards whom she now feels indifference only. ...Gloria (Leanne Best) has travelled for many hours with her hapless husband and two ...teenage kids to be there and she wastes no time making clear her resentment towards her family. With its setting that spans two decades of social change, Butterworth's play highlights the divide between the hopes of breaking free of expected roles for women and the price of fighting for independence in a male-dominated world.
This collection of essays focuses on one of Harold Pinter's most popular and challenging plays, The Dumb Waiter, while addressing also a range of significant issues current in Pinter studies and ...which are applicable beyond this play. The interesting and provocative dialogues between established and emerging scholars featured here provide close readings of The Dumb Waiter, within relevant cultural and historical contexts and from a range of theoretical perspectives. The essays range over issues of autobiography and theater, genre studies, and the impact of Pinter's political activism on his dramatic production, among others. The collection is also concerned with the meaning of the play when assessed against other example's of Pinter's work, both dramatic and non-dramatic writing. Each contributor shows a gift for presenting a complex argument in an accessible style, making this book an important resource for a wide range of readers, from undergraduates to postgraduates and specialist researchers. The collection offers essays that approach The Dumb Waiter, from an interdisciplinary perspective and as both a literary and dramatic text. Thus, the book should be of equal significance to those encountering Pinter within the context of English Studies, drama, and performance.
...due to the national event of Queen Elizabeth II dying on September 8, 2022, a pause was placed on the presence of a live audience and the live streaming from the real Lord’s Cricket Ground. See ...PDF Insisting on the presence of the real to act as a counterbalance to the hegemony of the virtual, Stumped’s proscenium arch was constructed as a dark, heavy wooden picture frame encircling and framing the set of an English cricket pavilion drenched in the vibrant color palette and design of René Magritte’s blue skies and white clouds, reminiscent of the very pompier trompe-l’oeil backcloth to Beckett’s play Happy Days. At the end of Act One, the audience saw Beckett step through multiple real and unreal planes in the digital screen; as he stepped off the stage, out of the picture frame, into the void, into the live audience, onto an imaginary cricket pitch to play imaginary cricket at the real Lord’s Cricket Ground.
...the mental health community has failed to devise any credible means to hold political leaders accountable for their promises and commitments. ...the civil society landscape in mental health is ...still atrociously weak by comparison with the AIDS movement and advocacy for women's and children's health. The broader political, economic, social, and environmental determinants of mental health—poverty, violence, conflict, humanitarian emergencies, inequality, gender inequity—are too often seen as separate to the enterprise of extending mental health services.
This article studies the phenomenon of ‘intellectual drama’ as a complex of ideas that the authors attribute to Harold Pinter’s writings, namely his novel ‘The dwarfs’ (1952-1956, 1990). The novel, ...written in the 50s and revised in 1989, presents a witty, masterfully done picture of relations between people with poisonous and touching scenes, which are overlooked by some mysterious dwarfs. The main objective of this article is to give a complex analysis of the recurrent motifs, themes, symbols and theatrical devices used by Harold Pinter, which would allow us to state that intellectual drama imprint might be traced in his novel ‘The Dwarfs’.
Abstract
This article analyses the fluid frontiers of imagination, memory and the real in Harold Pinter’s
Old Times
. While the latter notions of memory and the real in Pinter’s works have been ...extensively explored, the concept of imagination has not. In this article I argue that the concept of imagination as it has been interpreted since the mid‐1900s—which exactly tries to grasp or even dissolve these fluid frontiers—offers a way of rethinking both Pinter’s discussion of dramatic truth, the notion of ‘the real’ as it appears to his characters, and how memory is presented in his plays. An attentiveness to the concept of imagination as an analytical approach, will also allow us new ways for understanding how the text implies a potential engagement with his audience.
This article engages with the issue of the factors determining theatrical prominence, endorsing the “institutional approach.” In discussing the major mediating role played by theater reviewers in the ...canonization of individual playwrights, the article focuses particularly on two essential factors that contribute to and affect the processes of their canonization: a convergence of the mediating agents concerning the prominent theatrical contribution of the playwright in question; and the formulation of the playwright’s critical construct (an aggregation of traits recurring in the works seen as typifying the playwright in terms of influences and innovations). The careers of four British playwrights, Harold Pinter, John Arden, Sarah Kane, and Martin McDonagh, serve as the case studies. Three of these — Pinter, Arden, and Kane — demonstrate three differing trajectories that represent two distinctive possibilities, whereby either both factors are at play and canonization follows, or neither is at play and canonization fails. McDonagh represents an intriguing, different possibility in which one factor is at play while the other is absent. Thus, while the careers of three of the playwrights demonstrate the effectivity and consequent implications of the two factors, McDonagh’s trajectory illustrates the consequent effectivity of each factor separately and the relevant implications of such effectivity.
Drawing on unpublished materials from the BBC Archives, this article provides scholars with vital new contexts for understanding Harold Pinter's late 1950s and early 1960s attempts to transform his ...very earliest radio dramas-"Something in Common," A Slight Ache, A Night Out, and The Dwarfs-into radio broadcasts. The material in the form of memoranda from script readers and producers to whom scripts were sent reveal considerable internal dissent within the staff of the BBC Radio Third Programme Department during this period. In addition to exploring the existing opposition to the radio performance of Pinter's works amongst elements in the BBC Third Programme hierarchy, this article assesses the personalities involved in the decision-making process at the BBC, the performance of Pinter's texts in terms of their broadcasting history, and the ways in which BBC radio drama staff, including Barbara Bray, R. D. Smith, and D. G. Bridson, recognised and encouraged Pinter's genius. These important BBC archival materials afford us with a new understanding of the manner in which the production of Pinter's early works anticipated the contemporary reactions and subsequent critical perspectives of the full-length plays that later defined his career.
The awakened girl De Ambrogi, Marco
Lancet neurology,
November 2019, 2019-11-00, 20191101, Letnik:
18, Številka:
11
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
Families provided essential support and company for these patients and, because of an emotional component in the manifestations of post-encephalitic parkinsonism, sometimes their presence was enough ...to generate a temporary respite from the most severe manifestations of the disease. When L-DOPA administration generated the awakenings in the patients who had survived the acute phase of encephalitis lethargica, some family members reacted negatively because their role of unique carer for every need of the patients was jeopardised by the unexpected, albeit temporary, recovery. In the play, when Deborah is awakened, her sister faces the drama of seeing her years of care, which destroyed her marriage, unappreciated and her role as carer put into question. ...Deborah's sister is forced to make a decision between telling her the truth about what had happened in those 29 years and maintaining the illusion that things had not changed.
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