The Stage

Stars unite to celebrate Pinter at the National

Published Friday 8 May 2009 at 12:23 by Alistair Smith

Jude Law, Sheila Hancock and Colin Firth will be among the performers featuring in a special celebration of Harold Pinter’s work at the National Theatre next month.

Harold Pinter: A Celebration will feature excerpts of the late playwright’s works, directed by Ian Rickson and with performers including Eileen Atkins, David Bradley, Kenneth Cranham, Janie Dee, Andy de la Tour, Lindsay Duncan, Firth, Henry Goodman, Hancock, Douglas Hodge, Lloyd Hutchinson, Law, Gina McKee, Sophie Okonedo, Stephen Rea, Alan Rickman, Michael Sheen, Indira Varma, Samuel West, Lia Williams, Penelope Wilton, Henry Woolf, and students from LAMDA.

The performance will take place on Sunday, June 7 in the NT’s Olivier Theatre.

Pinter died on December 24, 2008. A number of his plays premiered at the National - Betrayal, No Man’s Land, Other Places and Mountain Language and his adaptation, with Di Trevis, of Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past. Other productions of his work at the NT have included The Caretaker, The Birthday Party, The Homecoming, a revival of No Man’s Land which he also directed, The Hothouse and, most recently, Landscape and A Slight Ache. The many awards in recognition of Harold Pinter’s work included the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature.