tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post5387956552817419711..comments2024-02-18T19:36:43.844+11:00Comments on theatre notes: Vale Harold PinterAlison Croggonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-40133247363692343082008-12-31T06:37:00.000+11:002008-12-31T06:37:00.000+11:00Hi Alison,I wrote this small poem in the few days ...Hi Alison,<BR/><BR/>I wrote this small poem in the few days after hearing about Harold Pinter's death. Thought it'd be appropriate for the site. I hope you are enjoying a well earned rest. Happy New Year.<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>Love offers grief as a kind of reward<BR/>An unveiling <BR/>Like the lost sun in deepest winter<BR/>And the shadows<BR/>Of a long watched tree<BR/>That creep across the windowDuncan Grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14902035523136117656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-18976765990327512532008-12-27T09:37:00.000+11:002008-12-27T09:37:00.000+11:00Pinter was a revelation to me in my early days as ...Pinter was a revelation to me in my early days as a writer. What struck me most was how he demonstrated the way we use language to avoid being understood, and that our simplest social interactions are often a struggle for power. He did that in a way that seemed true to what I had experienced and observed. It seems just as true to me twenty-five years later. While my failures are my own, anythingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-27608389745783712702008-12-27T00:22:00.000+11:002008-12-27T00:22:00.000+11:00When I was talking to somebody at the Royal Court ...When I was talking to somebody at the Royal Court a few years ago to prepare an article for the New York Times, I mentioned that I wanted to run something about Pinter's then-upcoming performance in "Krapp's Last Tape." "Oh, you must come!" the Royal Court person said. "Can I set aside a few tickets for you?"<BR/><BR/>I don't have many regrets in this life, but my not getting to London for that Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-65459247457531197822008-12-26T15:56:00.000+11:002008-12-26T15:56:00.000+11:00Very sad news indeed but hopefully an end to great...Very sad news indeed but hopefully an end to great pain as well. I just received his book Various Voices as a Christmas gift from my parents and was actually reading it early this morning when a text message came through from a friend in the UK who told me the news. Had just been reading the final poem in the book "Death May Be Ageing" written in 2005 which ends with "But death permits you to Matt Scholtenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12847496506580627207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-47155838223334732612008-12-26T11:47:00.000+11:002008-12-26T11:47:00.000+11:00Alison.I did a PhD in theatre at Stafndord in the ...Alison.<BR/><BR/>I did a PhD in theatre at Stafndord in the 1980s, and Pinter was a constant companion. You might enjoy the remembrance on my blog.<BR/><BR/>All the best, JarrettAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com