Pinter's People

Bill Bailey To Star in Harold Pinter Sketches At London's Theatre Royal Haymarket
Four Week Limited Run

Comic actor and comedian BILL BAILEY ('Never Mind The Buzzcocks', 'Black Books') is to appear alongside comedy royalty SALLY PHILLIPS ('Green Wing', 'Bridget Jones' Diary', 'Jam 'n' Jerusalem'), KEVIN ELDON ('Big Train') and GERALDINE MCNULTY ('My Hero') in a remarkable evening of rarely seen HAROLD PINTER Sketches during a four week, limited run of performances at London's THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. In a mark of respect and a celebration of PINTER who will celebrate his 76th birthday this year, SEAN FOLEY ('The Right Size', 'The Play What I Wrote') will direct the four strong cast in this presentation of the thirteen sketches, woven together under the banner 'PINTER'S PEOPLE', a title given to the company by the playwright for this unique production.

Many regard HAROLD PINTER as Britain's greatest living playwright. He is the undisputed master of absurdist drama and his plays are noted for their use of silence, understatement, and cryptic small talk. Equally recognizable are the 'Pinteresque' themes - nameless menace, erotic fantasy, obsession and jealousy, family hatred and mental disturbance.

The thirteen sketches FOLEY has chosen to present date back to Pinter's earliest days as a playwright in the 1950s.
Bill Bailey in Pinter's People

In 'NIGHT' in which GERALDINE MCNULTY and BILL BAILEY play a man and woman living together in what they call love. He recalls that the first time he held her was on a bridge, where he cupped her breasts in his hands. Her recollection is entirely different; another location where he took her hand and gently stroked it. The difference of memory between the lovers creates an almost tragic divide.

In 'TESS', SALLY PHILLIPS plays an excitable young girl at a party who recalls growing up with Mummy and Daddy in the country…and then, without any apparent change of key, we watch her sink into a surreal madness. In 'THE NEW WORLD ORDER' a sketch far more chilling and compelling than any Tarrantino scene, BAILEY and ELDON play Des and Lionel, two men who take us on a highly disturbing yet hysterical journey whilst they discuss what they are going to do to the blindfold man sitting in the chair beside them.

THE PINTER SKETCHES prove why PINTER has been proclaimed the last modernist, the last Classicist and at times the last Romantic, the fact that he has seen and is excited by this interpretation of his work makes this production all the more special. Produced by MICK PERRIN, PINTER'S PEOPLE performed by BAILEY, ELDON, MCNULTY and PHILLIPS under the creative guidance of award-winning FOLEY means that the PINTER'S PEOPLE promises to be one of 2007's most coveted tickets.

When PINTER'S PEOPLE opens at The THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET on Feb1st (previews from 30th Jan) for four weeks only. It will be one of the last chances to see PINTER as the playwright himself intended. It will also be a unique opportunity to see four of our most talented and respected comic actors together.


Strictly Four-Week Run Only
Mick Perrin for Just For Laughs Live
Presents

'PINTER'S PEOPLE' - Sketches, Monologues and Two-Handers 1958 - 2002

TROUBLE IN THE WORKS
THE BLACK AND WHITE
SPECIAL OFFER
THAT'S YOUR TROUBLE
REQUEST STOP
NIGHT
THE NEW WORLD ORDER
TESS
VICTORIA STATION
THAT'S ALL
LAST TO GO
PRECISELY
PRESS CONFERENCE





I'd quite like to go to this! its a shame there's nothing from "The Caretaker" though, after i spent a gazillion years studying it and achieved my first A* from it!

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BILL BAILEY?!
KEVIN ELDON?!!

oooh i wanna go im studying harold pinter

FYI tickets are £40 but I really wanna go too- keep an eye out on lastminute.com for offers. also sometimes getintolondontheatre have some student discounts for under 25s.

Sorry to double-post but tickets are on offer at lastminute.com

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Eep- triple posting now! Sorry!
Just to say- saw this last night and came away with mixed feelings. Some of it was amazing but some parts I just didn't get- they weren't funny- were they meant to be? (that sort of thing)
Anyho, had a backstage tour of the theatre for my uni course today and who should let us through the stage door but Sally Philips. Unfortunately, my voice chose that moment to go completely so I just stood gawping for about 2 seconds before she went away. Turns out she's pregnant again though so congrats to her for that! If anyone else if going, enjoy but don't bother with a programme!
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