Three Short Plays by Pinter

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One for the Road/Ashes to Ashes/Press Conference: Three Short Plays by Harold Pinter

The Curve Space at The Forum. Friday 19th June 7:45pm Tickets: £3 'a flawless, richly resonant miniature masterpiece' Daily Telegraph on One for the Road. As part of Refugee Week, Writers' Centre Norwich in association with The Norwich Theatre Royal Actors Company present a rehearsed reading of three extraordinary short plays about torture, abuse and autocratic regime by the Nobel Prize winning playwright Harold Pinter. One for the Road In 1984 Pinter met two young Turkish women at a party who, it appeared, were entirely unmoved by their country's aggressive use of torture and interrogation. "Instead of strangling them, I came back immediately, sat down and ... out of rage, started to write One for the Road." Ashes to Ashes Seen by many critics as one of Pinter's most important plays, this intense one-act piece starkly marries domesticity and politics, love and genocide, trust and violence. Pinter’s dialogue at its most subtle, nuanced and feverishly dangerous. Press Conference In 2002 Harold Pinter was made Companion of Honour for services to literature. In the same year he writes a ferocious sketch attacking government corruption, political spin and state approved censorship of the artist. '.Harold Pinter is famous for his views on foreign politics - in particular, for his views on tyranny, oppression, and the involvement of the world's leading nations in the politics of smaller nations. The twist is that Pinter. has a terrific knack for menace, heartlessness, authority.' Financial Times Running time approx: 70mins Tickets £3 and on sale from 6th May onwards from The Theatre Royal Box Office (01603 630000) and online at The Norwich Theatre Royal websiteNB this event is not suitable for children under 12 ASHES TO ASHES was first presented by the Royal Court Theatre at the Ambassadors Theatre, London on 12 September 1996 For further information on Refugee week events, download the Refugee Week events guide (PDF)