Harold Pinter Nobel Literature Laureate

[Marina]

Anyone else managing to be very pleased for him while still not finding his plays at all enjoyable?

lol

thats what I said to dh last night

"wow that's fantastic. Still hate his plays though"

Apparently he's been saying lots of anti-Bush things? Is it political, I wonder? He might use his speech to slag him off further.

You don't

enjoy

his plays,

eh? (Octobernow leans in close to Marina's face. Silence)

(Octobernow circles Marina's chair menacingly)

pause

Eh?

pause

i think he used to be good. now one of those literary starsa who can get away with any old nonsense.

pause.

i think this smacks of "ummm... er... who can we give it to? oh yes..."

LOLOL at octobernow and snap Enid.
Dh, being out of the loop, was scoffing at Harold's rather Querelle de Brest fisherman's hat until I told him about the recent fall and HP's illness
Teeavee, I think he certainly believes that this is a political message from the Nobel Prize to the British and the American governments.

I think there may also be an element of not wanting to award it posthumously laligo. I'd say HP's cancer has returned, he really did look most unwell last night, fall excluded. And in fairness, I think he has turned his back on playwriting since he was diagnosed in 2002.
He would not be the first Nobel Laureate to be honoured for a lifetime career that has been on the quiet side in recent years.

oh go on do some more Octobernow and laligo this thread is really making me lol

oh I am ROFPMSL at this thread
I award you the MN Prize for Being Very Droll
Theatre of the Absurd my a**
Theatre of the Very Very Dull

Oh, Marina, I love, LOVE his plays. And I mean I'm really not especially clever. . .I had no idea what was going on in Michael Frayn's Copenhagan, for example, and Shakespeare's history plays seem to go right over my head no matter what. . .but I guess I just 'get' Pinter. Maybe I just have very strange taste! Anyway, I was over the moon when I heard he got the Nobel. . .I think it's so well-deserved.

But very funny thread!

agree marina, he does deserve it for his life's work.

[laligo's disembodied head disappears back inside its dustbin]

[oh no or was that samuel beckett???!!!]

Sorry for not replying sooner

Was in Sidcup

You say your name is Enid?

long pause

I knew a woman called Enid

END OF ACT ONE

Sobernow you are a scary dame And I'm not taking any recommendations for a night out at the theatre from someone called Medea FGS!
laligo, that made me laugh. I spent far too long today cataloguing a FOUR-DISC boxed set of all 19 of Beckett's stage plays. Obviously I'm not going to reveal its whereabouts because of the likelihood of burglary...

I was quite pleased. Despite thinking that while the world needs HP to exist, I'd be really really pleased never to have to sit at a dinner party with him.

(Hi Marina )

Hello yourself there. Still doing Kafka re-enactments then? Have been thinking of you lots lately Hester

is it true that he swears like a trooper?!

If this baby doesn't come soon, my home life will start resembling Pinter at his most hormonal. Sadly, my cervix has decided that it's not playing ball until I get a little bit of nesting done. So I'm grumpy, grumpy, grumpy.

Thinking more on Pinter, how much time do you reckon you have wasted on books/plays/films that you make yourself undergo because you really should, while actually finding them a bit of an ordeal? What else could I have done with the time I spent, say, reading Jeanette Winterson's last three books?

you could have been feet up on the sofa in front of this morningm, with a packet of jammy dodgers, a cuppa and ok magazine on your lap

you didn't. Not that one about the laptop, please...I feel very aggrieved that I spent nine months of the best years of my life studying the entire yawnsome output of John Arden and Margaretta d'Arcy (yes, precisely...who?) but I was made to do that.
I felt like a bilious dirty slut after ploughing through some horrifically overheated Susan Howatch novels about the C of E, but I was pregnant. Sound familiar?

Teeavee, do you miss Jammy Dodgers over there? to counterbalance at your easy access to Breton tops, macs, sardines, artichokes etc etc etc

It's just occurred to me that I could write a bestselling novel about this.

I will call it Harry Pinter and the Great Playwright's Prize

Pinter

Pretentious
Interminable
Navel-gazing
Torpid
Endless
Rigid

Must be a genius Is an icon
How could the 60's make sense without the Pinteresque pause

He is the necessary counterbalance to all that fluffy pothead paisley nonsense isn't he Cam.
Come on then Octobernow, your public awaits. Surely you can crank that, and another baby, out by Christmas?