The History of Production of the Works of Harold Pinter
The Proust Screenplay (1972)
Harold Pinter
Film screenplay
English
Pinter's script adaptation of Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu. In writing The Proust Screenplay, Pinter adapted the seven volumes of Proust's magnum opus for a film commissioned by the director Joseph Losey to be directed by Losey (Billington, Harold Pinter 224–330). According to Pinter in conversation with Jonathan Croall and with Michael Billington, his official biographer, Losey and Pinter were not able to find the financing for the film and there were unsurmountable casting difficulties; yet, after a year's work and other cultural complications pertaining to negotiations about permission to adapt Proust's great work from principals in France, Pinter finished his first draft of the screenplay in November 1972 (Billington, Harold Pinter 224–330).
The screenplay was never filmed. It was adapted for radio and that version broadcast in 1995. A stage adaptation by Di Trevis in consultation with Pinter was performed at the National Theatre in 2000-1.
Date of Composition: December 1971 - 1972
Adapted From: À la recherche du temps perdu (1922)
Adapted Work Note:
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Publishers
Grove Press on (1 October 1977)
Faber and Faber Ltd on (1978)
Characters
Andrée (Age: Unknown, Female)
Another Old Gentleman (Age: Unknown, Male)
Baron De Charlus (Age: Unknown, Male)
Brichot (Age: Unknown, Male)
Butler (1) (Age: Unknown, Male)
Butler (2) (Age: Unknown, Male)
Cabman (Age: Unknown, Male)
Chambermaid (Age: Unknown, Female)
Chatellerault (Age: Unknown, Male)
Coachman (The Proust Screenplay) (Age: Unknown, Male)
Dancer (Age: Unknown, Male)
Dechambre (Age: Unknown, Male)
Delphine (Age: Unknown, Female)
Dr Cottard (Age: Unknown, Male)
Dr Percepied (Age: Unknown, Male)
Duc (Age: Unknown, Male)
Duc de Guermantes (Age: Unknown, Male)
Duchesse de Guermantes (Age: Unknown, Female)
Father (Proust) (Age: Unknown, Male)
Character from Tea Party
Footman (1) (The Proust Screenplay) (Age: Unknown, Male)
Footman (2) (The Proust Screenplay) (Age: Unknown, Male)
Footman (3) (Age: Unknown, Male)
Footman (4) (Age: Unknown, Male)
Françoise (Age: Unknown, Female)
Friend (1) (Age: Unknown, Female)
Friend (2) (Age: Unknown, Female)
Gilberte (Age: Unknown, Female)
Gisele (Age: Unknown, Female)
Grandmother (Age: Unknown, Female)
Historian (Age: Unknown, Male)
Hotel Manager (Age: Unknown, Male)
Journalist (Age: Unknown, Male)
Journalist (2) (Age: Unknown, Male)
Journalist (3) (Age: Unknown, Male)
Jupien (Age: Unknown, Male)
La Marquise (Age: Unknown, Female)
M. Verdurin (Age: Unknown, Male)
M. Vinteuil (Age: Unknown, Male)
Man (1) (Age: Unknown, Male)
Man (2) (Age: Unknown, Male)
Man (3) (Age: Unknown, Male)
Marcel (Age: Unknown, Male)
Marquis de Norpois (Age: Unknown, Male)
Mlle de Saint-Loup (Age: Unknown, Female)
Mlle Vinteuil (Age: Unknown, Female)
Mme Cottard (Age: Unknown, Female)
Mme Verdurin (Age: Unknown, Female)
Mme De Villeparisis (Age: Unknown, Female)
Morel (Age: Unknown, Male)
Mother (Proust) (Age: Not specified, Female)
Odette (Age: Unknown, Female)
Old Gentleman (Age: Unknown, Male)
Park Keeper (Age: Unknown, Male)
Pepi (Dog) (Age: Unknown, Female)
Prince (Age: Unknown, Male)
Prince de Guermantes (Age: Unknown, Male)
Princesse de Guermantes (Age: Unknown, Female)
Queen of Naples (Age: Unknown, Female)
Rachel (Proust) (Age: Unknown, Female)
Railwayman (Age: Unknown, Male)
Rosemonde (Age: Unknown, Female)
Saint-Loup (Age: Unknown, Male)
Charles Swann (Age: Unknown, Male)
Valet (Age: Unknown, Male)
Vicomtesse De Saint-Fiacre (Age: Unknown, Female)
Woman (1) (Proust Screenplay) (Age: Unknown, Female)
Woman (2) (Proust Screenplay) (Age: Unknown, Female)
Young Man [Proust Screenplay] (Age: Unknown, Male)
Waiter (Proust Screenplay) (Age: Not specified)
Lady (Proust Screenplay) (Age: Not specified, Female)
Assistant (Proust Screenplay) (Age: Not specified, Female)
Albertine Simonet (Age: Unknown, Female)
Listed in dramatis personae as Albertine.
Marquise de Cambremer (Age: Unknown, Female)
Listed in dramatis personae as Mme. de Cambremer.
Marquis de Cambremer (Age: Not specified, Male)
Listed in dramatis personae as M. de Cambremer.
Mlle Vinteuil's friend (Age: Unknown, Female)
Resources
The Proust Screenplay (URL)
Type: Website
External Link: http://www.haroldpinter.org/films/films_theproust.shtml
Harold Pinter's official website.
‘Harold Pinter’s Drafts of The Proust Screenplay’, Callum McKean, British Library blogs, 12 October 2020 (URL)
Type: Blog post
Sources
Michael Billington, Harold Pinter
Michael Billington, Harold Pinter. 1996. 2nd rev. ed. London: Faber and Faber, 2007.
Biography
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_of_Things_Past_(play)
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