One of the Festival's theatre productions will take on a particular poignancy after the death of the playwright and poet Harold Pinter last week. Pinter, regarded as one of the most influential playwrights of the 20th century, died last Wednesday, aged 78.
Being Harold Pinter will be performed by the Belarus Free Theatre, opening at Belvoir Street Theatre on January 6 and moving to Penrith's Q Theatre in early February.
The production combines excerpts from some of Pinter's most political plays, including One For The Road and Ashes To Ashes, his landmark Nobel Prize speech from 2005 and letters written by political prisoners in Belarusian jails.
Fergus Linehan said that Pinter's death was a huge loss, "He was one of the great three or four living playwrights. I think it's really good that we'll be seeing something of his work for the festival," Linehan said. "I met him a few times and he was an amazing man."
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