Harold Pinter: A Celebration
Harold Pinter: A Celebration

Harold Pinter: A Celebration (2009)


Harold Pinter: A Celebration

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Date from

7 June 2009

The performance began at 7pm.

Date to

7 June 2009

No of Performances 1
Language English

Venues

National Theatre: Olivier Theatre (Est. 1976)

07-Jun-2009 to 07-Jun-2009

Linked Productions

Arena: Harold Pinter - A Celebration (2010)

Notes:

Linked People

Ian Rickson (1963)

Creative | Director


Peter Mumford

Creative | Lighting Designer


Linked Organisations

No Linked organisations have been added to this production record yet.

Characters

Reader (Age: Not Specified)

Rea opened the performance with a reading of the poem 'The Dead'

Performer: Stephen Rea (1946)

Reader (Age: Not Specified)

Woolf read his own 'Voices in the Tunnel' (2001)

Performer: Henry Woolf (1930 - 2021)

Julie (Age: Not specified, Female)

Performer: Susan Wooldridge (1950)

Lambert (Celebration) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Henry Goodman

Waiter (Celebration) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Jude Law (1972)

Matt (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Andy de la Tour (1948)

Prue (Age: Not specified, Female)

Performer: Lindsay Duncan (1950)

Reader (Age: Not Specified)

Hodge read 'Mac'

Performer: Douglas Hodge (1960)

Reader (Age: Not Specified)

Firth read the poem 'Paris'

Performer: Colin Firth (1960)

Reader (Age: Not Specified)

Wilton read the poem 'I Know the Place'

Performer: Penelope Wilton (1946)

Reader (Age: Not Specified)

Cranham read the poem 'To Antonia'

Understudy: Kenneth Cranham (1944)

Wasn't Present

Gene (Age: Not specified, Male)

Understudy: Jeremy Irons (1948)

Wasn't Present

Lake (Age: Not specified, Male)

Understudy: Indira Varma (1973)

Wasn't Present

Davies (Age: old, Male)

Described as 'an old man'

Understudy: David Bradley (1942)

Wasn't Present

First Old Woman (Age: old, Female)

Unnamed character from 'The Black and White'

Performer: Eileen Atkins (1934)

Second Old Woman (Age: old, Female)

Unnamed character from 'The Black and White'

Performer: Sheila Hancock (1933)

Deeley (Age: early forties, Male)

Understudy: Alan Rickman

Wasn't Present

Anna (Old Times) (Age: early forties, Female)

Understudy: Lindsay Duncan (1950)

Wasn't Present

Kate (Old Times) (Age: early forties, Female)

Understudy: Gina McKee (1964)

Wasn't Present

Max (Age: 70, Male)

Understudy: Kenneth Cranham (1944)

Wasn't Present

Richard (The Lover) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Understudy: Jude Law (1972)

Wasn't Present

Sarah (Age: Not specified, Female)

Understudy: Indira Varma (1973)

Wasn't Present

Reader (Age: Not Specified)

West read 'Arthur Wellard'

Understudy: Samuel West (1966)

Wasn't Present

Tess (Age: Not Specified, Female)

Understudy: Penelope Wilton (1946)

Wasn't Present

Stanley (The Birthday Party) (Age: late thirties, Male)

Understudy: Kenneth Cranham (1944)

Wasn't Present

Goldberg (Age: fifties, Male)

Understudy: Henry Goodman

Wasn't Present

McCann (Age: 30, Male)

Understudy: Lloyd Hutchinson (1967)

Wasn't Present

Ruth (The Homecoming) (Age: early thirties, Female)

Performer: Lia Williams (1964)

Briggs (Age: thirties, Male)

Understudy: Andy de la Tour (1948)

Wasn't Present

Reader (Age: Not Specified)

Sheen read 'American Football'

Understudy: Michael Sheen (1969)

Wasn't Present

Reader (Age: Not Specified)

Dee read 'The Disappeared'

Understudy: Janie Dee (1962)

Wasn't Present

Reader (Age: Not Specified)

Lloyd-Pack read 'The Bombs'

Understudy: Roger Lloyd-Pack (1944 - 2014)

Wasn't Present

Reader (Age: Not Specified)

Burton read 'My Terrible Cap'

Understudy: Harry Burton (1962)

Wasn't Present

Reader (Age: Not Specified)

Irons read 'Cricket at Night'

Understudy: Jeremy Irons (1948)

Wasn't Present

Reader (Age: Not Specified)

Duncan read 'After Lunch'

Understudy: Lindsay Duncan (1950)

Wasn't Present

Reader (Age: Not Specified)

Bradley read 'Weather Report'

Understudy: David Bradley (1942)

Wasn't Present

Reader (Age: Not Specified)

McKee read 'The Meeting'

Understudy: Gina McKee (1964)

Wasn't Present

Robert (Betrayal) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Understudy: Michael Sheen (1969)

Wasn't Present

Emma (Age: 38, Female)

Emma 38 at the beginning of the play, and her age changes as the time period moves more or less backward from 1977 to 1968

Understudy: Janie Dee (1962)

Wasn't Present

Aston (Age: early thirties, Male)

Mick's brother

Understudy: Colin Firth (1960)

Wasn't Present

Reader (Age: Not Specified)

Law read 'It is Here'

Understudy: Jude Law (1972)

Wasn't Present

Reader (Age: Not Specified)

Williams read 'To My Wife'

Understudy: Lia Williams (1964)

Wasn't Present

Reader (Age: Not Specified)

Irons read 'Poem (to A)'

Understudy: Jeremy Irons (1948)

Wasn't Present

Reader (Age: Not Specified)

Students from LAMDA read from the Nobel Prize address

Waiter (Celebration) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Stephen Rea (1946)

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Resources

Programme front (Image)

Type: Theatre programme

photo credit: Marc Atkins

Programme interior, p. 2 (Image)

Type: Programme content

Programme interior, p. 3 (Image)

Type: Programme content

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