Eileen Atkins, Colin Firth, Jude Law, Stephen Rea et al. Set for National’s Harold Pinter Tribute

The work of the Nobel Prize-winning British playwright Harold Pinter, who passed away on Christmas Eve at the age of 78 after a long battle with cancer, will be celebrated with a stellar one-off evening of readings and performance excerpts in the National’s Olivier Theatre on June 7 at 7 pm. Ian Rickson will direct.

Amongst the high-profile actors who will be taking part in Harold Pinter: A Celebration are Eileen Atkins, David Bradley, Kenneth Cranham, Janie Dee, Lindsay Duncan, Colin Firth, Henry Goodman, Sheila Hancock, Douglas Hodge, Jude Law, Gina McKee, Sophie Okonedo, Stephen Rea, Alan Rickman, Michael Sheen, Indira Varma, Samuel West, Lia Williams, and Penelope Wilton, most of whom have numerous Pinter credits to their names already. The evening will also feature students from LAMDA.

A number of Pinter’s plays premiered at the NT: Betrayal, No Man’s Land, Other Places and Mountain Language and his adaptation (with Di Trevis) of Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past. Other productions of the playwright’s work at the National over the years included The Hothouse, The Caretaker, The Birthday Party, and The Homecoming.

Tickets are priced £10 and are available in person or by telephone from the National Theatre box office on 0207 452 3000.

For more information, visit www.whatsonstage.com.