British actor Julian Sands (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; The Killing Fields; a Room with a View) is to perform at Luxembourg's National Theatre in "A Celebration of Harold Pinter", directed by John Malkovich.
The performances at the TNL (194 route de Longwy, L-1940 Luxembourg) are in English and will be on Thursday 19 January @ 20:00, Friday 20 January @ 20:00 and Saturday 21 January at 18:30.
In 2005, Julian Sands was approached by the Nobel Prize winning playwright and poet Harold Pinter to prepare a selection of his poems for a special presentation in London. Pinter ”apprenticed” Mr. Sands, spending hours sharing his feelings on how his work should be delivered. Every pause, every nuance in tone had and has meaning.
A bond was established between the author Harold Pinter and the actor Julian Sands – one that gives a distinctive and very personal voice to Pinter’s words. This extraordinary collaboration became the foundation for a wonderfully rich, humorous and fascinating solo show directed by John Malkovich.
A Celebration of Harold Pinter is an evening of Homeric theater with an extraordinary actor, great words and an audience. Devoid of pretension or glittery trappings, A Celebration of Harold Pinter gets to the soul of the man-poet, playwright, husband, political activist, Nobel winner, mortal. Performances at the Edinburgh Festival in 2011 and in New York at The Irish Repertory Theatre were followed by engagements at Steppenwolf in Chicago, Herbst Theatre in San Francisco as well as in Los Angeles, Mexico City, Budapest, London, and Paris. A Celebration of Harold Pinter was nominated for a 2013 Drama Desk Award.
British actor Julian Sands is frequently seen worldwide in films, on stage and on television. He trained in London at The Central School of Speech and Drama and has appeared in over 100 films including The Killing Fields, A Room with a View, Impromptu, Leaving Las Vegas, Arachnophobia, Oceans13 and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. On television, he is best known for his role on 24 but has also been seen on Dexter, Smallville, Ghost Whisperer and Banshee.
After Les liaisons dangereuses in 2013, TNL presents, for the second time, a play directed by John Malkovich, an exciting evening which focuses on Pinter as a poet.
Tickets cost €25 and are available from www.tnl.lu or www.luxembourgticket.lu or tel: 470895-1.
