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TIME: You grew up in London's Jewish East End, which produced great theaterfolk from Harold Pinter to Lionel Bart. What did it teach you? GOODMAN: There was a defined Jewish community there, but we were anxious to blend in - which is why Jews gave their children good English names like Henry. I did my first musical at the age of 16, and there were lots of different communities in it. All those influences were just as important as studying Stanislavsky at RADA [Royal Academy of Dramatic...
Macey founded The Boiler Company in 1998, and since then the group has boldly tackled modern plays by the likes of Sam Shepard and Harold Pinter. The young company, which is composed mostly of students and recent graduates of Clark University, seems on the verge of coming into its own. While growing pains are sometimes evident and company members can seem unsure of themselves, in its best moments, the evening of one act plays seethes with the group’s experimental energy...
While the upcoming student productions of The Who’s Tommy and Three Sisters rehearsed upstairs, and the Pinter plays held tech rehearsal in the Experimental Theater, a different kind of event was humming in the Loeb’s West Lobby. On Oct. 22, the Houghton Mifflin Company sponsored the third annual benefit reading from the 2001 edition of its publication, The Best American Short Stories. The evening benefited PEN (Poets/Playwrights, Essayists, Editors, Novelists) New England, the regional branch of the only worldwide organization of writing professionals, and made for a worthy excuse to put incredible talent...
...Another hit, the played-in-reverse Betrayal, is based on Pinter's affair with British TV presenter Joan Bakewell...
...Pinter's most recent play, Celebration, is paired with The Room at London's Almeida Theatre. A sellout, and the critics love...