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Mountain Language

Short Play, Drama  /  2w, 5m

Harold Pinter

Mountain Language
by Harold Pinter

Focusing on the brutalities of a society which forbids a minority of its population to speak in their own language, it is a play of few words which add up to an eloquent indictment of the banning of any human utterance.' Paul Taylor in the Independent.

Mountain Language

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    2w, 5m

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Focusing on the brutalities of a society which forbids a minority of its population to speak in their own language, it is a play of few words which add up to an eloquent indictment of the banning of any human utterance.' Paul Taylor in the Independent. It was presented by the National Theatre at the Lyttelton Theatre in 1988 starring Eileen Atkins, Michael Gambon and Miranda Richardson.
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting Various simple settings

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Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter (1930-2008) was born in London on October 10, 1930. He lived with Antonia Fraser from 1975 until his death on Christmas Eve 2008. (They were married in 1980).

After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the Central School of Speech and Drama, he worke ...

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