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  • Harold Pinter is not...

    Harold Pinter is not just a great loss to the theatre as a writer, director and actor of outstanding gifts, but as a stalwart and life long campaigner against war and injustice across the world.
    I heard him speak, particularly against the 'War on Terror' and the assaults on Iraq, many times. He was a marvellous orator, witty, moving, galvanising and fearless.
    His contribution to the political agenda that fights for those innocents caught up in the madness of war is at least as powerful a legacy as his artistic contribution to the world.
    Rest in peace Harold.

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    By Meryl Jones on 29th Dec 2008

  • I was a teacher...

    I was a teacher for 28 years and taught both The Caretaker and The Birthday Party to many classes. I also took many groups to see productions of both plays, including a very memorable one at the studio theatre in the Citizens, Glasgow.
    About a year ago, I met the mother of one of my former students. "Ah yes," she said, "you're the Pinter man!"
    Harold Pinter's plays made an impact which still lasts. Every time I see a packet of cornflakes, I think of Stanley and Meg. Pinter was a one-off idiosyncratic playwright who I feel will be irreplacable. God Bless.

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    By Keith Tait on 28th Dec 2008

  • The Caretaker was the...

    The Caretaker was the play that started me on my enjoyment of the theatre. As a 17 year old at Sixth Form, I was asked to read the part of Davies. After a couple of sessions, the other two readers were changed, but, and I still do not know why, I was left to read this character for the rest of the play. I didn't do it in a Welsh accent inside the class room, but once outside, I must have infuriated my school-chums with the accent, and quotes: "If I could get to Sidcup, see".

    The accents are still there, as I use them in my Hospital Radio slot (Mondays at 8pm) www.TheJumboSound. com.

    Long life to his nearest and dearest.

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    By Martin Levin on 28th Dec 2008

  • I will never forget...

    I will never forget going to see Pinter plays such as The Birthday Party and feeling shocked. His early work was original, disturbing and often very funny. He made us face uncomfortable truths about how people treat one another.
    In more recent times I felt very glad he was around to speak up for those such as myself who didn't want Blair to "liberate" Iraq. I watch the news and read the papers now and see events taking place that are fair more shocking and disturbing than anything in Mr Pinter's early plays.
    I feel sorry for his wife. In interviews she always talked about what a romantic husband he was and how he wrote her beautiful love letters and poems.

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    By Simon Silberman on 28th Dec 2008

  • I met Harold Pinter...

    I met Harold Pinter in Dublin in September 2008 during the launch of my novel about the anti war movement, Snow White Turtle Doves. Harold Pinter is a character it, so I was a bit nervous about actually presenting him with it. However, he was delighted to receive a signed copy and thrilled that I had written him as a character. I was able to thank him in person for being the inspiration for the story, and it was a great privilege to meet him and I will always be grateful for his kindness and generosity towards a fellow writer.

    Deepest condolences to Antonia Fraser.
    May he rest in peace.

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    By Juliet Bressan on 26th Dec 2008

  • Wonderful entertaining plays and...

    Wonderful entertaining plays and moving poetry. The Nobel Lecture is one of the most inspiring speeches in history. Loving tribute to the anti war movement from his many friends in Dublin.

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    By Peter In Dublin on 26th Dec 2008

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