| The influence of playwrights like Pinter and Beckett was more apparent in his teens. |
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| We know each other from working in the theatre together and doing a Pinter double bill. |
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| As a director you want to put on great plays to attract great actors and Mr Pinter is absolutely ideal for that. |
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| This Pinter play lives up to the writer's reputation for delivering tightly crafted plays with unexpected twists. |
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| You could as easily call it the Pinter syndrome and it certainly is the BBC syndrome. |
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| Early in his career, Pinter denied that he wrote symbolically, partly because critics tried to associate him with absurdism. |
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| What appeals to me is that it's a precursor of Pinter and a follower of Coward. |
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| While Pinter the playwright may extol existential ambiguity and incertitude, Pinter the activist and dissenter has no such anxiety. |
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| The occasion was a gala dinner during which Pinter began to harangue some unfortunate guest for his political views. |
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| But then, besides his politics, Pinter is, horror, working class. |
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| I made a disobliging reference to Pinter in my piece, and then discovered before the deadline that the speech had actually been delivered the day before. |
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| Long before she met Pinter, Fraser was a glittering member of the London literati. |
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| The troupe stages the critically acclaimed Being Harold Pinter, a play about helpless characters with a KGB-esque twist. |
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| Unconsciously, perhaps, Fraser reveals more about what Pinter saw in her than what she saw in him. |
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| Pinter has taken the analytical and oppositional qualities that informed his full-length plays and continues to apply them to every aspect of his work. |
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| Pinter composed 27 screenplays and film scripts for cinema and television, many of which were filmed, or adapted as stage plays. |
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| In December 2001, Pinter was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer, for which, in 2002, he underwent an operation and chemotherapy. |
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| On the Monday before Christmas 2008, Pinter was admitted to Hammersmith Hospital, where he died on Christmas Eve from liver cancer. |
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| Poetry teaches us how to live and you, Harold Pinter, teach us how to live. |
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| Playwright Harold Pinter and former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad accused Blair of war crimes. |
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| I've done bits of Pinter before, but to be part of this two-hander is great for an actor. |
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| Probably the best interpretation is liability extends to all who satisfy the Pinter test. |
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| The GBP1,000 award was established by PEN to commemorate playwright Harold Pinter. |
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| After the Academy notified Pinter of his award, he had planned to travel to Stockholm to present his Nobel Lecture in person. |
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| From the late 1960s he found new plays that suited him, by authors including Alan Bennett, David Storey and Harold Pinter. |
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| Important modern playwrights include Nobel laureate Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Alan Ayckbourn, John Osborne, Michael Frayn and Arnold Wesker. |
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| Pinter himself and later critics generally credited Hobson as bolstering him and perhaps even rescuing his career. |
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| Pinter was born and raised in Hackney, east London, and educated at Hackney Downs School. |
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| In 1940 and 1941, after the Blitz, Pinter was evacuated from their house in London to Cornwall and Reading. |
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| At the age of 12, Pinter began writing poetry, and in spring 1947, his poetry was first published in the Hackney Downs School Magazine. |
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| Pinter enjoyed running and broke the Hackney Downs School sprinting record. |
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| Other interests that Pinter mentioned to interviewers are family, love and sex, drinking, writing, and reading. |
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| Pinter adores women, enjoys flirting with them, worships their resilience and strength. |
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| In his last 25 years, Pinter increasingly focused his essays, interviews and public appearances directly on political issues. |
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| Harold Pinter earned a reputation for being notoriously pugnacious, enigmatic, taciturn, terse, prickly, explosive and forbidding. |
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| Later Pinter continued to campaign against the Iraq War and on behalf of other political causes that he supported. |
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| Mr Pinter and The Birthday Party, despite their experiences last week, will be heard of again. |
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| Pinter played the major role of Roote in a 1995 revival at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester. |
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| But Pinter might be reluctant to apply such a phrase to his own writing. |
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| Critics of his actions, including Bishop Desmond Tutu, Harold Pinter and Arundhati Roy have called for his trial at the International Criminal Court. |
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| Pinter's unpublished manuscripts and letters to and from him are held in the Harold Pinter Archive in the Modern Literary Manuscripts division of the British Library. |
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| From 1954 until 1959, Pinter acted under the stage name David Baron. |
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| Pinter participated both as an actor, as Nicolas in One for the Road, and as a director of a double bill pairing his last play, Celebration, with his first play, The Room. |
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| In 1985 Pinter stated that whereas his earlier plays presented metaphors for power and powerlessness, the later ones present literal realities of power and its abuse. |
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| After Pinter mentioned that he had an idea for a play, Woolf asked him to write it so that he could direct it to fulfill a requirement for his postgraduate work. |
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| From 1956 until 1980, Pinter was married to Vivien Merchant, an actress whom he met on tour, perhaps best known for her performance in the 1966 film Alfie. |
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| The BBC Radio 4 memorial tribute included an essay on Pinter and cricket. |
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| More recently the playwrights Alan Ayckbourn, Harold Pinter, Michael Frayn, Tom Stoppard and David Edgar have combined elements of surrealism, realism and radicalism. |
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