HAROLD PINTER
Born: October 10, 1930
Died: December 24, 2008
Harold Pinter was a British playwright, screenwriter, actor and director. His best known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964) and Betrayal (1978). He adapted each of these plays for the screen. Other screenplay adaptations include The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1971), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Trial (1993) and Sleuth (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television and film productions of his own.
His plays are noted for their use of understatement, small talk, reticence and even silence to convey the substance of a character's thought, which often lies several layers beneath, and contradicts, his speech. Pinter's plays are indecisive in their plots, presentation of characters, and endings, but they hold undeniable power and originality. They typically begin with a pair of characters whose stereotyped relations and role-playing are disrupted by the entrance of a stranger; the audience sees the psychic stability of the couple break down as their fears, jealousies, hatreds, sexual preoccupations, and loneliness emerge from beneath a screen of bizarre yet commonplace conversation. source
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