Playwright Pinter Mourned
The world of theatre was in mourning this week following the death of Nobel prize-winning Jewish playwright Harold Pinter.
The author of such modern stage classics as The Birthday Party and The Caretaker, and movies such as The French Lieutenant's Woman and The Go-Between, passed away last Wednesday aged 78, following a lengthy battle with cancer.
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Wesker told TJ: "Harold was brilliant at what Harold was brilliant. The landscape will not be the same without him."
Actor Michael Bradley, currently appearing in Pinter's No Man's Land, said : "His loss is monumental and his influence cannot be calculated."
Despite his acclaim as a writer and despite crediting his experiences of anti-semitism as the son of immigrants growing up in the East End as one of the factors that led him to become a playwright, Pinter often courted controversy for his outspoken political views, particularly on American foreign policy and Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.
A signatory to Jews for Justice for Palestinians and Independent Jewish Voices, he decried "Israel's injustice to the Palestinians" as "an outrage".
Actress-turned-MP Glenda Jackson said his death was "a great loss not only to the theatre but... also a great loss to people who fight for human rights."
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