THE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE
in association with NICK BROOKE LTD. & PLEASANCE EDINBURGH presents
JULIAN SANDS
in
A CELEBRATION OF HAROLD PINTER
Directed
by JOHN MALKOVITCH
Artistic Director:
CHARLOTTE MOORE
Producing Director:
CIARAN O'REILLY
Lighting Design:
MICHAEL O'CONNOR
Wardrobe:
NICOLE FARHI
Production Stage Manager: CHRISTINE LEMME
Press Representative: COYLE ENTERTAINMENT
The Irish Reportory Theatre Company
The Season in Union Square at the DR2 Theatre
The Season in Union Square at the DR2 Theatre
103 East 15th Street
Julian
Sands performed brilliantly in
A Celebration of Harold Pinter directed
by John Malkovich. The idea to explore the structure and content of
Harold Pinter's prose, poetry, and political activism started with a luncheon
given by Harold's wife, Antonia Fraser, that developed into a wonderful
collaboration to create this solo show. Sands brings a personal touch to the
stories and poems by Pinter because he knew the man and his entourage.
Greetings were even conveyed to the audience from Antonia in London to the New
York audience on Easter Sunday.
Harold Pinter (October 10, 1930 - December 24, 2008)
was a Nobel Prize-winning author with a career spanning more than 50 years.
He's a renowned playwright, The Birthday
Party and the Tony Award-winning The
Homecoming, a screenwriter, actor, director, poet, and political activist.
Sands re-enacts Pinter's description of himself, "I'm well aware that I
have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, terse,
prickly, explosive and forbidding' and that set the tone for many of the
stories and poems to follow, along with wry humor.
There were touching remarks about Pinter's
admiration for Samuel Beckett (Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright , theatre
director, and poet--died December 22, 1989) who brought forth beautiful works
like Waiting for Godot and Endgame.
What surprised me the most, were Pinter's poems
about the dying process, looking death in the mirror, and exploring rituals
associated with death. It was real and poignant. On the lighter side, there
were many poems about his school days, cricket, Ireland, and current affairs.
It's a delightful journey that Sands brings you on
and at the end you can get your own dedicated copy of Various Voices by Harold Pinter signed by Julian Sands on behalf of
Pinter. It's a nice way to end the performance and keeps the voice of Pinter
alive.
I'd
highly recommend to go and watch the production of Julian Sands in A Celebration of Harold Pinter directed
by John Malkovitch and presented by The
Irish Repertory Theatre at the DR2 Theatre in Union Square.
-
Laura Thompson -
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