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Julian Sands' Tribute

Would it be all right to have this mentioned in the article?

From a news article: "When ill health prevented Pinter from keeping this engagement he enlisted the aid of actor Sands to stand in his stead with the proviso being that Sands had to spend time with Pinter rehearsing the works. After that Sands continued to read the poetry at fund-raising events and has done a series of readings at the Odyssey Theatre to help out a theatre that has found itself suffering from the recession."

The show's been performed in the Edinburgh Festival, and even in Spain (I believe). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.142.37.169 (talk) 01:47, 26 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Probably not. Jezhotwells (talk) 00:07, 28 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

??? No basis for such out-of-hand rejection??? Points of information: This tribute, called "A Celebration of Harold Pinter," has subsequently been performed at Yale University, at the Irish Repertory Theatre and then, after fall 2012, back on tour and in various venues throughout Los Angeles and elsewhere in California. The Irish Repertory Theatre has a separate webpage describing the production, with some history,[1]. Any search engine such as Google will turn up many (additional) reliable sources relating to it. Constructing some mention of it with appropriate citations needs reconsideration as part of updating this article. (One of the earlier LA performances is available for anyone to view on Vimeo.) (updated.) 66.66.27.196 (talk) 02:03, 9 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

NOTE: Recent related changes have created plagiarism from a source (see Dec. 2014 edit)

Please fix this problem: Quotation marks were removed (should actually be quotation marks within quotation marks): see section on Pinter's civic and political activities. Source link (not given in note 85) is: http://www.economist.com/node/21526301. Source does not say that Pinter. "earned a reputation for being notoriously pugnacious"; all the rest of the adjectives are probably Pinter's own words and in quotation marks in this source (about Julian Sands's reading being reviewed) and introduced by "...Harold Pinter knew that he was" described as '.....'" Please remove "notoriously pugnacious" (not in the source) and restore "/" before and after all the rest of the sentence (" '/ ' ") as in source (see link and please add link to the endnote). 66.66.27.196 (talk) 03:30, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Remove: Category:Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He never graduated from RADA and is therefor not an alumni of RADA. Only studied there briefly.

Attribs101 (talk) 02:06, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Done — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(t • e • c)} 02:35, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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['Updated request first made on 19 Feb. 2015] Please see request added to top section (on Julian Sands program); an edit made by someone else on 24 Dec. 2014 created plagiarism from a source (current note 85). It removed quotation marks and added words ("notoriously pugnacious") not in the source ; the source uses all the other adjectives and puts them within quotation marks. Before these quoted words the source States that Pinter "knew" he was considered to be " 'enigmatic .....' " etc. Please delete the editor's added "notoriously pugnacious" and restore the quotation marks around the rest of the adjectives as per the source article as explained above (quotation within quotation marks). These are not Wikipedia's words; they seem to be Pinter's as quoted in the Economist (http://www.economist.com/node/21526301). The Economist's writer does not clearly identify the source of the quotation. Check Pinter's acceptance speech for his David Cohen British Literature Prize as a possibility. 66.66.27.196 (talk) 04:30, 19 February 2015 (UTC) Updated by adding proper SPER template. 66.66.27.196 (talk) 04:12, 11 March 2015 (UTC) Thus, requesting that one replace current sentence preceding source citation #85: Harold Pinter earned a reputation for being notoriously pugnacious, enigmatic, taciturn, terse, prickly, explosive and forbidding. (In which an edit added the unsourced words "notoriously pugnacious" and removed subsequent necessary internal quotation marks and quotation wthin quotation marks) with the following sentence: As Harold Pinter himself acknowledged, he "had earned a reputation for being 'enigmatic, taciturn, terse, prickly, explosive and forbidding'."[85] Also please add the URL in the Economist source citation 85 (as given above). Thank you. (Updated as per template.) 66.66.27.196 (talk) 04:12, 11 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3949227/Harold-Pinter-the-most-original-stylish-and-enigmatic-writer-in-the-post-war-revival-of-British-theatre.html

Here's a link to a Telegraph obituary quoting Pinter's own use of the quoted words placed within his own quotation marks (suggesting some sense of self-irony). 66.66.27.196 (talk) 04:12, 11 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: As you are a banned user (NYScholar sockpuppet), you should understand that this article is protected because of your past actions. — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(e • t • c)} 21:41, 11 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support decline. Banned means banned. I have zero tolerance of this banned user and arguing with a good faith contributor as she has just done [2] is outrageous. Moondyne (talk) 07:11, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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223.236.239.125 (talk) 16:59, 2 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. --allthefoxes ^(Talk) 17:25, 2 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Pinter at the Pinter

In September 2018, the Jamie Lloyd Company will present a season of Harold Pinter's one-act plays on the tenth anniversary of the Nobel Prize winner’s death, performed in the theatre that bears his name - the Harold Pinter Theatre - and running until February 2019. This unique event will feature all twenty short plays written by Harold Pinter and have never before been performed together in a season of this kind.

The twenty plays will be presented in repertoire by a company of actors and directors, many of whom were Harold Pinter’s friends and collaborators. The cast currently includes Keith Allen, Ron Cook, Phil Davis, Danny Dyer, Paapa Essiedu, Martin Freeman, Rupert Graves, Tamsin Greig, Jane Horrocks, Celia Imrie, Gary Kemp, John Macmillan, Emma Naomi, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Abraham Popoola, John Simm, Maggie Steed, David Suchet and Nicholas Woodeson.

The plays will be directed by Jamie Lloyd, Patrick Marber, Ed Stambollouian, Lyndsey Turner, and Lia Williams. Season design will be by Soutra Gilmour.

The short plays featuring in the season are One for the Road, The New World Order, Mountain Language, Ashes to Ashes, The Lover, The Collection, Landscape, A Kind of Alaska, Moonlight, Night School, The Room, Victoria Station, Family Voices, Party Time, Celebration, A Slight Ache and The Dumb Waiter. Special rehearsed readings of Tea Party, The Basement and Silence will complete the season.

92.207.251.34 (talk) 09:31, 12 July 2018 (UTC) 92.207.251.34 (talk) 09:27, 12 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]