| Harold Pinter |
Pinter started writing his own plays in 1957 and his first ever play was 'The Room.' This contained a range of different elements which would be recognised with Pinter's later work including menace and the unknown without any explanation or reason for the action.
Another play wrote in 1957 by Pinter was 'The Dumb Waiter.' This play is about two hired hit men employed by a mysterious organisation to murder an unknown victim. In this second play Pinter added an element of comedy to the menace which is played out through the small talk the two hit men have which hides their growing anxiety.
Pinter thought it was not necessary to have explanations as to why the characters have said or the actions they have taken. By doing this and writing more and more plays Pinter won several awards which included the nobel prize for literature.
Harold Pinter (the son of a Jewish Tailor) was born in East London in 1930. He first started off writing poetry for different magazines when he was a teenager. As he was growing up he studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the Central School of Speech and Drama. Pinter soon left to start an acting career under the stage name of David Baron as actor's in them days did not like using their real names for the plays they perform. As his career went on he travelled around Ireland in a Shakespearean company and spent years and years working in provincial repertory before finally making a decision of committing to playwriting.
