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...Unlike his friend Harold Pinter, he is a generous and flexible collaborator in the rehearsal room, even after 50 years of validation. As literary criticism, it is frustrating....
...After setting up the RSC in his twenties, he went on to direct premieres by such acclaimed playwrights as Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Peter Shaffer and Alan Ayckbourn....
...His directing career, which spanned more than 50 years, included both classic work and the world premieres of seminal new plays such as Betrayal, No Man’s Land and The Homecoming by Harold Pinter, and Peter...
...and Heather Wade's recommendation of Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte: "One of many management/business lessons it teaches is simple but easily forgotten — know your value!...
...(Harold Pinter reckoned he’d need a play to run for 30 years to match the six million strong audience a TV transmission would attract.)...
...harry.eyres@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/eyres ——————————————- Letter in response to this article: Harry’s home was no Totleigh Towers / From Mr Christopher Bellew...
...“Keaton was the great poet,” says director Richard Eyre. Keaton first appeared in movies in 1917, aged 22, and went on to act in 127 films, direct 29 and write the majority of those....
...… Pigsticks and Harold and the Incredible Journey, by Alex Milway, Walker Books, RRP£6.99/ Candlewick, RRP$12.99 Would-be famous explorer Pigsticks and his taciturn hamster assistant Harold embark on...
...The actors in Richard Eyre’s production portray different aspects of Gray’s personality....
...Harry Eyres is the FT’s ‘Slow Lane’ columnist ………………………………………………………....
...the most intriguing and unlikely exchanges in this intermittently remarkable volume occurs between the old Master (he of the slicked hair, the cigarette holder and the dinner jacket) and a young master, Harold...
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...And Richard Eyre’s production combines a seductive, brooding atmosphere with wonderful comic details. Yet the piece also frustrates....
...Unseen characters prey on the mind - think of Daphne DuMaurier’s Rebecca, or Mrs Rochester in Jane Eyre - and on the mind’s tendency to think the worst....
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