Talk:No Man's Land (play)

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No Man's Land is the name of a 1974 play by the English dramatist Harold Pinter.

The play is a four-hander. Hirst, a successful but isolated and alcoholic writer, looked after and guarded by Foster and Briggs, has met Spooner, a failed writer (if a writer at all) who seeks to inveigle himself into Hirst's household. The manoeuvrings of the four characters - Foster and Briggs seeking to fend off Spooner, and Hirst and Spooner's verbal jousting - are among the richest in all Pinter's plays. The play is extremely funny, but has deeply serious and sad undertones - loneliness, the nature of real art, and the route fate chooses for everyone's lives.

It was produced in 1975 by Peter Hall and shown first at the Old Vic (then home to the Royal National Theatre) and starred John Gielgud as the seedy, calculating Spooner and Ralph Richardson as the burnt-out Hirst. This production was given on Broadway in 1976 and filmed for television in the same year.

The next major revival, in 1992, was at the Almeida Theatre (later transferring to the West End) starring Paul Eddington as Spooner and Pinter himself as Hirst.

In 2001, again at the National Theatre, Spooner was played by John Wood and Hirst by Corin Redgrave. This production was directed by Pinter.

This is POV if I've ever seen it. Sounds more like a review. -Jetman123 10:13, 17 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

More than happy to leave it to you to amend to conform with your wishes. Tim riley 09:34, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Assessments attributed. Can the piece now be approved for use? Tim riley 21:46, 15 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Missing citations, references, external links[edit]

I've reorganized this article and added some source citations, Notes and References and External links sections; much of the material in the previous version(s) came from unacknowledged sources; see Wikipedia:Plagiarism for the necessity to avoid plagiarism in Wikipedia. I'm not developing this article further because I don't have time to do so. I've marked it as a stub; it needs much more development. There are some editorial interpolations accessible in the "show preview" mode. Pinter's official website has separate subsections on productions of the play. Many other sources are accessible through the cross-referenced bibliography and external links sections of the main article(s). --NYScholar (talk) 01:16, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No Man's Land 1993?[edit]

I saw Pinter star in this in the Fall of 1992. I don't think the date is correct in the original article (stating Feb 1993). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.132.1.69 (talk) 06:10, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the comment. But Wikipedia editing policy requires reliable and verifiable published sources; the source cited in this case is a published review presented on Pinter's own official Website, haroldpinter.org, and the date given for the production on Pinter's site there--in the webpage No Man's Land – 1993--and in the review by Irving Wardle is February 1993. Your memory may be faulty, or you may have seen a regional production prior to the play's official opening mentioned in the review, or early previews, or .... (Check your playbill or another record of where you saw it?) A published source is needed for any different date. This is not "previews" or advance performances "out of town", but rather a production opening date given in text. --NYScholar (talk) 06:19, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Photo in Guardian.co.uk Pinter gallery is another source for 1993. --NYScholar (talk) 06:25, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment[edit]

I was surprised to see this rated as stub class. I have not worked on this but I did point an editor at a picture. I rate it a a minimum B class, mid importance and have adjusted accordingly. Jezhotwells (talk) 23:33, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for doing so and also for providing the image, which I added to what I hope will be considered an appropriate spot in this article. :-) --NYScholar (talk) 01:23, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

about plays of No man's land herold pinter[edit]

dear can u provide the details about herold pinter plays — Preceding unsigned comment added by 113.193.165.90 (talk) 08:21, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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