Nobel Prize winning playwright Harold Pinter thrived in Ireland -- celebrated at the Irish rep, New York

Irish Repertory Theatre stages A Celebration of Harold Pinter

Pinter fell in love with the countryside and with the idea of Ireland, with both the scenery and the language, and it resulted in poems where he accesses lyrical images that convey his emotions in a new way, such as in “The Islands of Aran Seen From the Moher Cliffs.”

Alongside A Celebration of Harold Pinter, the Irish Repertory Theatre’s 25th anniversary season also includes the critically acclaimed production of Brian Friel's Freedom of the City playing upstairs in its main space.

Ireland was a theatrical crucible for Pinter, where he learned how to stage works as diverse as detective thrillers to Shakespeare's tragedies. He also learned exactly how long a ham actor can hold a rural  audience's rapt attention with silence. That last lesson proved the most enduring.

For more information, visit www.irishrep.org.

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