In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration of the work of Harold Pinter at the National Theatre, directed by Ian Rickson. The team who made the acclaimed Harold Pinter documentaries for BBC's Arena was there to record this unique performance.
Mrs. Samuels
Ноябрь 1937 года. Семнадцатилетний Ричард Сэмюэлс учится в школе, а выходные проводит на Манхэттэне в поисках приключений. Случайно он оказывается в театре «Меркурий», который еще не открылся, но в нем уже вовсю идут дела, которыми руководит молодой Орсон Уэллс. Режиссер берет мальчика на небольшую роль в спектакле «Юлий Цезарь». И работа с будущим постановщиком «Гражданина Кейна» навсегда меняет жизнь Ричарда.
Suki
All the action takes place in a swish London restaurant where two coarse-grained strategy consultants are dining with their respective wives. At an adjacent table a banker and his wife banter over his recently discovered affair. But while Pinter gets a lot of laughs out of these gold-plated philistines, he also suggests they are displaced people. Shorn of any inherited values, they live in an eternal present of sex, food and conspicuous consumption. - Michael Billington, Guardian
Emma Lavenham
London's Dupayne Museum is in danger of closing since one of the trustees feels that the money expended on preserving the past could be better spent addressing the problems of living people. One of the museum's collections concerns murders committed between the world wars. When a killing that reflects one of the cases on display occurs, history seems to be repeating itself.
