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)
- More than happy to leave it to you to amend to conform with your wishes. Tim riley 09:34, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Assessments attributed. Can the piece now be approved for use? Tim riley 21:46, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
