Harold Pinter – poet of power?

On Christmas Eve the great Harold Pinter died.

In his work, and life, he was concerned with the power that people have and how the exercise it over others.  With him the inter-personal flows into the political and vice versa.

My ‘Pinter high points’ include,

acting in his one-act play The Room

seeing The Caretaker – especially the performance by Donald Pleasance

seeing the The French Lieutenant’s Woman for which Pinter wrote the screenplay (and Meryl Streep starred)

Here are three sides of Pinter.  The first is a piece from The Caretaker;

This brief piece makes a nice point about acting versus writing – and the potential in their relationship;

A full 1 hour with Charlie Rose is at the foot of this post.

An interview of Pinter by Newsnight’s Kirsty is here;

Part 2 of Kirsty’s interview;

1 Hour interview by Charlie Rose

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