Trigger from Only Fools and Horses to read Nobel Prize winner at Bridport Arts Centre
BRIDPORT Arts Centre has just released its Spring theatre programme for 2010 and Trigger’s take on Harold Pinter is officially one of the highlights.
Roger Lloyd Pack (aka Trigger) is going to be reading through Pinter’s 1995 play Ashes to Ashes. He’ll appear with Harriet Walter as part of A Pinter Celebration day on January 30.
Also on that day: Pinter’s widow Lady Antonia Fraser will talking about her new memoir Must You Go? My Life With Harold Pinter, and there will be a screening of Working With Pinter, a film about the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Pinter had a gift for film; it’s often forgotten that he, and not John Fowles, wrote the screenplay for the film of Fowles’ novel The French Lieutenant’s Woman.
There are some entertainingly tangy pages about Pinter and Fowles himself in Volume 2 of Fowles’ Journals.
“Another story went round on the first day of shooting. One of the electricians said to his mate, ‘Who are those two geezers over there?’
‘Wake up. That’s the bloke who wrote the book and the script-writer.’
‘Well, I realized the bearded git was a writer. That other one looks like a secondhand car salesman.’
Harold does dress with some sharpness, and never informally.”
Composer Rachel Leach
Another highlight – and another film – is the screening on February 11 of Dope Under Thorncombe, a silent melodrama shot locally in the 1930s with many members of the Trevett family. This should be a tremendous occasion, because the film will be accompanied for the first time by Rachel Leach’s specially commissioned score, played live by musicians in the auditorium. I was talking recently about this to Trevor Bailey, formerly of Trilith, who commissioned Ms Leach, and he reckons it’s going to be fabulous. If Mr Bailey says something is going to be good, you can tell yourself you’re going to be in for a treat.
For more details, see Bridport Arts Centre’s Spring 2010 brochure, available now, or click here to visit the centre’s website.