Harold Pinter on Politics and His Plays, 1966
From the Paris Review interview (PDF) with Harold Pinter in 1966.
Interviewer: Has it ever occurred to you to express political opinions through your characters?
Pinter: No, ultimately, politics do bore me, though I do recognize they are responsible for a good deal of suffering.
Interviewer: But you do think the picture of personal threat that is sometimes presented on your stage is troubling in a larger sense, a political sense, or doesn't this have any relevance?
Pinter: I don't feel myself threatened by any political body or activity at all. I like living in England. I don't care about political structures--they don't alarm me, but they cause a great deal of suffering to millions of people.
posted by Lynn @ 9:19 PM
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2 Comments:
Intersting then, that in recent years Pinter has become more famous for his Chomsky-ish politics than for his (what used to be) wonderful plays.
I think his plays are better than his politics...
beatroot,
That's what struck me about his 1966 position. I only followed his politics for a little when he received the Nobel. I fogged out after that.
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