HARRY BURTON - HAROLD PINTER'S OLD TIMES
12 PARTICIPANTS. 7 HOURS PER DAY. 4 DAYS.
THIS IS AN EXCITING OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH DIRECTOR HARRY BURTON ON PINTER’S OLD TIMES.
In “Old Times”, one of Harold Pinter’s most ambiguous and poetic plays (1970), a weekend house-guest brings the past back to haunt a married couple in their remote Norfolk home. The existing high tensions within a marriage are wonderfully brought out by the erotic intrusion of an unknown intimate who, twenty years earlier, was fond of stealing and wearing her flatmate's underwear. The play is preoccupied with the profound unreliability of memory: "There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened... There are things I remember which may never have happened but, as I recall them, so they take place." This workshop will explore how actors can approach heightened, poetic, ultimately mysterious material and still find real authority and pleasure in the process.
A CLOSE FRIEND & FREQUENT COLLABORATOR WITH HAROLD PINTER, HARRY BURTON BRINGS A DEEP KNOWLEDGE OF PINTER'S WORK. HIS PASSION IS TO EMPOWER ACTORS TO FIND THEIR WAY INTO PINTERLAND AND, ONCE THERE, TO SEIZE THE OPPORTUNITY TO RELISH THE TERRITORY.
BIO
Harry’s long association with Harold Pinter began in 1982, and culminated in 2007 with his West End production of THE DUMB WAITER, starring Lee Evans & Jason Isaacs. The following year Channel 4 showed his unique documentary WORKING WITH PINTER .
Harry recently directed Mark Rylance in Pinter's ART, TRUTH & POLITICS at the Harold Pinter Theatre.
BOOKING DETAILS
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