Too Late for Harold Pinter’s Last Tape???
Date: 4 September 2006
Bad news if you were hoping to see Nobel Prize winner
Harold Pinter performing
Krapp's Last Tape at the Royal Court. Tickets went on public sale at 10.00am today and sold out within half an hour. As part of the Royal Court’s year-long 50th anniversary season (See
News, 31 Jul 2006), Pinter – who has been battling cancer for the past three years and was forced to miss last year’s Nobel ceremony when he was hospitalised (See
The Goss, 6 Dec 2005) – is doing just nine performances, between 11 to 21 October 2006, in the 85-seat Jerwood Theatre Upstairs. In
Samuel Beckett’s 1958 study of mortality, creativity and memory, a 69-year-old man is alone on his last birthday, listening to the past. Best known for the many plays he has authored, for which he was last year awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (See
News, 8 Dec 2005), Pinter has also enjoyed an impressive career as an actor, not least in many of his own plays, including
One for the Road and
The Collection. Outgoing artistic director
Ian Rickson directs.
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