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Dateline: 16th November, 2005
To celebrate Harold Pinter's 75th Birthday and his receiving the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature, The Gate Theatre Dublin will present a reading by leading British actors of Pinter's play Celebration at the Albery Theatre for three nights only. Performances are Thursday 1st, Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd December at 7.30pm.
Directed by Alan Stanford, the cast includes Sinead Cusack (Prue), Janie Dee (Suki), Michael Gambon (Lambert), Jeremy Irons (Russell), Stephen Rea (Waiter), Kenneth Cranham (Matt), Charles Dance (Richard) and Penelope Wilton (Julie), all of whom have previously appeared in Pinter's plays.
In his seventy fifth year, award-winning playwright, screen writer, director and actor Harold Pinter will receive the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature which he will collect next month in Stockholm. He was appointed CBE in 1966 and became a Companion of Honour in 2002.
The Gate Theatre has a unique association with Harold Pinter, having presented two festivals of his work, in 1994 and 1997, and curated a third at the Lincoln Center, New York in 2001, all of which Pinter himself participated in. In October the Gate marked Pinter's 75th birthday by producing Old Times and Betrayal, and, on the weekend of his birthday, many actors associated with his work travelled to Dublin for readings of a selection of plays, poetry and prose spanning over fifty years, in which Pinter himself took part.
The Gate Theatre Dublin's partner in this venture is Sonia Friedman Productions. Both the Gate Theatre and Sonia Friedman Productions have collaborated on many productions in the West End, including The Home Place and Afterplay by Brian Friel, Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett and See You Next Tuesday by Ronald Harwood. Together they will, next April, be presenting the Gate Theatre Dublin's production of Brian Friel's Faith Healer in New York starring Ralph Fiennes, Cherry Jones and Ian McDiarmid, and directed by Jonathan Kent. The tickets for the reading of Harold Pinter's Celebration at the Albery Theatre, are £28.50 from the Box Office on 0870 950 0920. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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