Friday, 12 June 2009
"Harold Pinter: A Celebration"
From Jude Law to Colin Firth via Jeremy Irons, 25 actors favorites Harold Pinter paid tribute yesterday, Sunday June 7, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005 disappeared last winter. Laure de Gramont, who was one of close to Pinter, attended this exceptional evening at the Royal National Theater. For BibliObs, she tellsPlaywright, actor and poet Harold Pinter English died of liver cancer in London on 24 December 2008 at the age of 78 years. He was buried the following Wednesday in strict family intimacy in Kensal Green Cemetery, near his home in Holland Park, will soon be installed where the grave that the young English sculptor Emily Hoffnung is doing.
It had been five months since the evening of tribute to his memory was expected. The dazzling number of players on Sunday, June 7 at the Royal National Theater in London (the English equivalent of the Comédie-Française) was a faithful reflection of an entire life dedicated to theater, politics and friendship .
The previous week, the phone his agent Judy Daishi continued to crackle: the 1400-seat hall of the Olivier Theater would not be sufficient to accommodate the thousands of fans of one of the great geniuses of the theater in the twentieth century " A Celebration ", a tribute qu'avaient orchestrated his widow, historian Antonia Fraser and the great director Ian Rickson.
The Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman (author of "Girl and Death") had come specially from North Carolina, where he teaches, to pay a final tribute with his wife Angelika that he calls his master and with whom he shared a thirst for political justice and a great friendship. But there was also Tom Stoppard, Ronald Harwood, Victoria Gray (widow of Simon Gray who died last summer), Trevor Nunn, Peter Hall ... The list of celebrities from stage and screen British present, all close friends, would be too long to prepare. They came to hear the 25 players that Pinter cherished and who had been free on stage to read a poem, a passage of play or an excerpt from "From Mac," the hilarious story of his apprenticeship in the troupe Anew Mac Master in 1950.
Triangle sitting on a stage lit deliberately austere black and white, the players rose one by one to come forward and read or declaim their role as one evening. Displayed behind the title, date and names. Thus, beginning with the poem "Death", 1997, Stephen Rea started there, and he concludes this exceptionally similar exercise to review year-end Conservatory and performed by the greatest English actors alive.
On stage were Henry Woolf, who made his debut with Pinter, Jude Law, who had recently played for him, and Colin Firth, he had discovered in its infancy, but Alan Rickman, Gina McKee, Penelope Wilton, Jeremy Irons (in bright red shoes!), Michael Sheen, Lia Williams ... All had the role of gravity. His last work in 2006, "Apart from that," a two-minute piece ironically on non-communication due to mobile phone, such as extracts from its irresistible theater debut of "From Mac" read by Douglas Hodge, we did discover new facets of the comic playwright very famous for the density and darkness of his texts. Following excerpts from his most famous pieces, "Betrayal," "The Return", "No Man's Land", "The Guardian", "The Birthday" and "Celebration", but also poetry less accessible to the public as french "American Football" (1991), on the war with American, or the latest "Poem (to A)" (2007), dedicated to his wife, and read by Jeremy Irons that drew tears from the audience and actors
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