Pinter's People is a compilation of revue sketches or short prose works by Harold Pinter, which was performed for four weeks from 30 January 2007, at the Haymarket Theatre, in London, starring Bill Bailey, Geraldine McNulty, Sally Phillips, and Kevin Eldon.
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According to his note in the published text, Pinter's idea for the play was inspired by his reading of Awakenings, by the renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks (3).
He has appeared in many films including Plenty, Notting Hill, the Roman Polanski version of Oliver Twist and "44" Chest". His work in television series included The Young Ones, Bottom, Kavanagh QC and The Brief. On stage he has appeared at the National Theatre in Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land" and Alan Bennett's "People"
Dr Frances Pinter is the founder and executive director of Knowledge Unlatched, a not-for-profit company creating a global library consortium enabling sustainable open access academic book publishing.
In 2000 to 2001, she appeared in Harold Pinter and Di Trevis's NT stage adaptation of Pinter's The Proust Screenplay, Remembrance of Things Past, based on À la recherche du temps perdu, by Marcel Proust.
Most recently Hordley took on the role of Mick in Pinter's 1960 play The Caretaker when staged at Bolton's Octagon Theatre from 5–28 March 2009.
In addition to the plays of Pinter, Chekhov, and Ibsen, Victory Rep performed originals by Josyph and his adaptations of classic American authors such as Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Benjamin Franklin, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, and surgeon-author Richard Selzer.
1987 – Robert Altman directed a made-for-TV feature film version of The Dumb Waiter, starring John Travolta and Tom Conti, filmed in Canada and first televised in the United States on WABC-TV on 12 May 1987, as part of Altman's two-part series entitled Basements; part one is Pinter's first play The Room.
It was published in 1992 by St. Martin's Press in the U.S. (hardcover, 320 pages, ISBN 0-312-08091-3) and by Pinter in London (ISBN 0-86187-790-X); it was reprinted, and retitled as The Extreme Right in Europe and the United States, by Palgrave Macmillan as a 256-page paperback in 1994 (ISBN 0-312-12224-1).