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Billington, Michael
An updated version of Michael Billington's biography of Harold Pinter will be published by Faber and Faber in April.
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The Guardian - Gran Bretaña | 24/10/2007
British theatre as a mirror held up to society
Theatre critic Michael Billington considers how British post-war theatre reflects and affects the mood of the nation. "The theatre rarely topples governments or incites direct action. Margaret Thatcher survived the barbs of British dramatists, and Rupert Murdoch was not shamed into shedding his monopolistic powers by the success of David Hare and Howard Brenton's Pravda. What theatre can do is shift attitudes, articulate discontent, and reflect, often with microscopic accuracy, the mood of the nation. ... I believe British theatre's resilience lies in its unstoppable urge to take the moral temperature of the nation and to hold our leaders to account. You only have to look at the Iraq war, which quickly produced a formidable body of work . ... Significantly, it was theatre, rather than our timorous TV networks or the arthritic medium of cinema, that articulated public disquiet about Blair's policy of 'humane intervention'."
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The Guardian - Gran Bretaña | 01/03/2007
A revival of Harold Pinter plays in the UK
Michael Billington, biographer of the playwright and Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter, ponders a current proliferation of Pinter productions in the UK. "For a long time he was derided for what those on the right saw as his paranoid obsession with American foreign policy and its contempt for international law. ... If those attacks have largely disappeared, it is because recent events have tragically vindicated Pinter's world-view. In a speech in Turin in 2002 he warned that one result of our 'shameful subservience to the United States' might be terrorist attacks on the London underground. He also suggested that, in Iraq, 'the US and Britain are pursuing a course which can only lead to an escalation of violence throughout the world.' Once that might have looked like hyperbole. But who would dissent from that now? So if Pinter's plays are now being revived, it isn't simply out of guilt or respect for his years. It's a sign that Pinter's artistic and political vision increasingly coincides with our own."
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