Mountain Language & Ashes to Ashes

Mountain Language and Ashes to Ashes were presented as a double-bill at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in June 2001. Acclaim for Mountain Language: 'Extraordinarily economical and extraordinarily chilling.' Sunday Telegraph Ashes to Ashes: 'This dark, elegiac play, studded with brutally and swaggeringly funny jokes, is one of Pinter's most haunting works.' Sunday Times 'Ashes to Ashes is an extraordinarily powerful work: elusive, mesmeric, disturbing.' Guardian

Harold Pinter was born in London in 1930. He lived with Antonia Fraser from 1975 and they married in 1980. In 1995 he won the David Cohen British Literature Prize, awarded for a lifetime's achievement in literature. In 1996 he was given the Laurence Olivier Award for a lifetime's achievement in theatre. In 2002 he was made a Companion of Honour for services to literature. In 2005 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and, in the same year, the Wilfred Owen Award for Poetry and the Franz Kafka Award (Prague). In 2006 he was awarded the Europe Theatre Prize and, in 2007, the highest French honour, the Légion d'honneur. He died in December 2008.