#pinter pause

[maryxglz]

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[tomhiddleslove]

Tom just HAD TO give us his iconic laugh in the end, didn't he? 😉

Source: whatsonstage on IG.

[theenglishnook]

Harold Pinter reshaped English drama through silence and subtext. His “Pinter pause” revealed tension beneath words, proving that silence can express truth more powerfully than speech.

Birth of Harold Pinter (1930–2008) – The Master of Silence and Subtext

[theplanningstage]

Pauses vs Silences in Pinter

Timestamp: 10:18. Discussion of the difference between a pause and a silence in Pinter's work, referencing Betrayal specifically.

"I think the person who's exposing us really is Pinter and there are times when you are pausing and you are silencing and a silence is different to a pause just in case if you didn't know a pause is basically like five seconds compared to silences. It feels like you're there for five years not saying anything so the thing that feels very exposing is those silences because if you're doing a play where it's pick up the cues and run around like a headless chicken and get to the end all well and good but when you're on a bare stage with your heart on show and then you have to pause and hold an audience's attention with the power of your own internal mechanisms and the mechanisms of the character I mean yeah that's really exposing and we've tried to cut them short and Jamie's told us to go past the pain barrier. "What's a difference…between a Pinter pause and a silence? The boring answer is ones longer. "But when you pause it's either because you were gonna say something and you decide not to or you thought the other person was going to say something and they didn't the idea being that you take a break in the continued through line of that moment so you pause a silence during or after the silence one or both of the characters are changed and then you have to pick up a new moment at the end of it there's something very dead and alive to a silence that a pause doesn't quite have."

[erin-hart]

[lilyannifer]

I have a 1/3 scale 3D printed human skull in my costume shop (because when you work across the hall from the engineering shop, and they have a 3D printer, how can you not print a skull I mean really?) and a student of mine named it Harold. So I said I was Harold Pinter because it is taking a permanent pause. And then I realized I have fallen off the theater nerd deep end.