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Oct 23, 2019 · The Caretaker (1959) Unlike his earlier plays, The Caretaker was a financial victory, the first of many commercial successes. The full-length play takes place entirely in a shabby, one-room apartment owned by two brothers. One of the brothers is mentally disabled (apparently from electro-shock therapy).
Harold Pinter / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. – New York : Chelsea House Publishers, 1987 – New York : Chelsea House Publishers, 1987 The Pinter Review : Annual Essays / edited by Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. – Tampa, Fla : University of Tampa, 1987 –
Harold Pinter was born on 10 October 1930 in the London borough of Hackney, son of a Jewish dressmaker. Growing up, Pinter was met with the expressions of anti-Semitism, and has indicated its importance for his becoming a dramatist. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was evacuated from London at the age of nine, returning when twelve.
The Caretaker, Harold Pinter’s first successful play (his earlier play The Birthday Party had premiered to harsh critical reviews two years earlier), was produced in 1960 and was an instant success, with its admirers including Noel Coward and Terence Rattigan. It is appropriate that the play premiered in 1960, since it might be viewed as a bridge between the absurdism of 1950s theatre (most famously embodied by Samuel Beckett) and the minutely observed domestic situations of the plays of ...
May 6, 2019 · Harold Pinter (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) is sometimes associated with the generation of British playwrights who emerged in the 1950’s and are known as the Angry Young Men. His first plays, with their dingy, working-class settings and surface naturalism, seemed to link Pinter with this group, but only the surface of his plays is naturalistic; most of a Pinter play takes place beneath the surface.
Sep 17, 2016 · Playwright Harold Pinter talks about an upcoming theatre festival at Lincoln Center, held in his honor.Join us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/Manufactur...
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Harold Pinter. Writer: Sleuth. Harold Pinter, the 2005 Nobel Laureate for Literature, was born October 10, 1930, in London's working-class Hackney district to Hyman and Frances Pinter, Eastern European Jews who had immigrated to the United Kingdom from Portugal. Hyman (known as "Jack") was a tailor specializing in women's clothing and Frances was a homemaker. The Pinters, whose families hailed from Odessa and Poland in the Russian Empire, were part...
