Master Harold and the Belarussians
A theatre in Belarus has taken Harold Pinter’s Nobel acceptance speech as a skeleton around which they have devised a very political and apparently astounding collage of Pinter’s more recent dramatic writing. If the reviews are to be believed, it is something to be seen.
It has just played at a conference in Leeds dedicated to Pinter, and is an act of bravery for a company that faces no small risks for such work (their audiences are often contacted covertly by cell phone, and told where the show is to be). Read more about the Belarus Free Theatre here, in Michael Billington’s blog from the Guardian newspaper
- 20 04 2007 - 20:27
