Mountain Language - Harold Pinter - BBC2 - 1-12-88
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2021
- A serious short play from Harold Pinter. The Royal Court Theatre describes it as "Mountain Language - follows a group of prisoners in an unnamed country, trying to find a voice when their native language has been banned."
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Mountain Language by HAROLD PINTER.
'Your language is forbidden. It is dead. No one is allowed to speak your language. Your language no longer exists. Any questions?'
Lighting CLIVE THOMAS
Designer STUART WALKER Producer LOUIS MARKS
Directed by HAROLD PINTER
Designer: Stuart Walker
Producer: Louis Marks
Directed By: Harold Pinter
Sergeant: Michael Gambon
Young woman: Miranda Richardson
Officer: Julian Wadham
Elderly woman: Eileen Atkins
Guard: George Harris
Prisoner: Tony Haygarth
Second guard: Douglas McFerran
Hooded man: Alex Hardy
Women .............: Jennifer Hill
Women .............: Anne Higgins, Elizabeth Archer, Cryss Jean Healey
Women .............: Samantha David,
Women .............: Charlotte Kasner,
Women .............: Keely Marshall,
Women .............: Pauline Lewis-John,
Women .............: Jean Channon,
Women .............: Anne Priestley
Guards: Anthony Askew,
Guards: Alec Gifford
One of the finest of Harold Pinter's plays. We who have experienced what totalitarianism feels like will recognize every move the actors make, and every piece of dialogue they deliver.
It's brilliant. Harrowing, though. I am glad it's only 20 minutes long. Evoking "I can't take it anymore" on fascism is brilliant.
When back in the days Harold Pinter went to Northern Kurdistan{it has been occupied by Turkey forcibly since its establishment(East and South East part of it)} and saw that Kurdish people were being severely repressed by the Turkish government and state, he had decided to write this play. Turkish state tries to assimilate Kurdish people into Turkishness by force or education or in any possible way. Kurdish people were put in Turkish state prisons constantly and they could not speak to their families. To cut the story short, whatever you read or see in this production is deeply and truly related to the Kurdish people’s real situation up to this date. And I am currently translating this play into Kurdish language. Thanks to the great man who wrote this, thanks to his clear conscience 🙏🏻
I think it is the best adaptation of the drama, while nothing is as important as the written piece.
A brilliant 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹synthesis !
It would be interesting to see with the mountain language actually being different. I think it could be more powerful that way.
what is mountain language ?
@@Noha951Kurdish. In context.
@@manfromnockyInspired by Kurdish. Pinter wrote it to be set in any context.
I’m staging a production using the Kurdish language as the mountain language!
The dialogue is strange to create a sense of brutality and menace, of normality and civilised society breaking down. The setting is generalised and unspecified because crimes of inhumanity happen everywhere. The 'voices' are heightened poetic internal monologues to evoke the struggle of loved ones trying to communicate with each other.
Written and directed by Pinter, so twice the pauses.
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Fuck٫ tomorrow I have a test on this play and I don't know anything about it I hope tomorrow instead of the exam hall i will be present at my teacher's funeral😂
You haven't managed to take 20 minutes out of your day to at least watch it until the day before the exam?
Sounds like you've had it coming.
Very, very poor soul !!!
While the idea is great, I don't understand why it's considered a masterpiece. There's no context or setting beyond some type of military location and a people who can't speak their own language. The dialogue is so strange and unnatural. No one answers questions or speaks in a normal way because the script demands it. The acting is great, especially the sergeant and officer. But so much doesn't make any sense at all. Like what the hell are the voices in the young woman's head? What the hell is the random "can I fuck him?"
You only understand what a genius Pinter was if you’re a luvvie, darling.
It was deliberately written that way. That's how Modernist texts are.
It's the Theater of the Absurd.
And ANY KIND OF TORTURE makes it SENSE at all ???
You must be blind and unwilling to hear !
You must have been comfortably installed when you wrote THIS UTTERLY NONSENSE !
Pinter’s feeble attempt at Chekhov. He should have stuck to plays about the middle classes having no purpose in life.
Are you being serious? Surely not..
And you had better shut your mouth when you have NOTHING to say !!!
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Pinter wasn't that good at imitating Chekov