Tag Archives: Harold Pinter

Fall 1995: Acting Notebook

Posted on January 31, 2007 by sheila

Going through all these old notebooks – I came across the notebooks I kept during grad school. At first they start out all work, no play … which is interesting in and of itself – but the notebooks I kept … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday, Samuel Beckett

Posted on April 13, 2006 by sheila

Harold Pinter said about Beckett: “The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and … Continue reading →

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The Books: “Old Times” (Harold Pinter)

Posted on September 21, 2005 by sheila

Next in my Daily Book Excerpt: Next on the script shelf: Next on the shelf: another Harold Pinter play: Old Times. There are three characters in this haunting spare play: a man named Deeley, his wife Kate, and Kate’s friend … Continue reading →

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The Books: “The Dumb Waiter” (Harold Pinter)

Posted on September 20, 2005 by sheila

Next in my Daily Book Excerpt: Next on the script shelf: Next on the shelf: another Harold Pinter play, my favorite one: The Dumb Waiter It’s two guys in a basement room, waiting for … something … some message to … Continue reading →

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Pinter on Miller

Posted on February 12, 2005 by sheila

“I’m pretty convinced he was writing until the day of his death. He was born with the pen in his hand.” — Harold Pinter on his good friend Arthur Miller

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