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Michael Colgan looks at Harold Pinter's association with Ireland, from the early 1950s, when he toured with Andrew McMaster's company, to festivals at the Gate Theatre.

Series of personal essays about the playwright Harold Pinter who died in December 2008.

Michael Colgan, artistic director of the Gate Theatre in Dublin, looks at Harold Pinter's long association with Ireland, from the very early 1950s when he toured as a young actor with Anew McMaster's company to the Gate Theatre, where Colgan presented four major festivals of the late playwright's work.

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Mon 16 Feb 2009 23:00

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