Editing Harold Pinter (section)

===''Being Harold Pinter''===
In January 2011 ''Being Harold Pinter'', a theatrical collage of excerpts from Pinter's dramatic works, his Nobel Lecture, and letters of Belarusian prisoners, created and performed by the [[Belarus Free Theatre]], evoked a great deal of attention in the [[public media]].  The Free Theatre's members had to be smuggled out of [[Minsk]], owing to a government crackdown on dissident artists, to perform their production in a two-week sold-out engagement at [[La MaMa]] in New York as part of the 2011 [[Under the Radar Festival]]. In an additional sold-out benefit performance at the [[Public Theater]], co-hosted by playwrights [[Tony Kushner]] and [[Tom Stoppard]], the prisoner's letters were read by ten guest performers: [[Mandy Patinkin]], [[Kevin Kline]], [[Olympia Dukakis]], [[Lily Rabe]], [[Linda Emond]], [[Josh Hamilton (actor)|Josh Hamilton]], [[Stephen Spinella]], [[Lou Reed]], [[Laurie Anderson]], and [[Philip Seymour Hoffman]].<ref name=BFT>{{cite web |url=http://broadwayworld.com/article/Kline_Hoffman_et_al_Lend_Support_to_Belarus_Free_Theater_with_BEING_HAROLD_PINTER_Benefit_at_The_Public_Tonight_117_20110117 |title=Kline, Hoffman et al. Lend Support to Belarus Free Theater with 'Being Harold Pinter' Benefit at The Public Tonight, 1/17 |work=broadwayworld.com |date=17 January 2011 |access-date=29 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120505094146/http://broadwayworld.com/article/Kline_Hoffman_et_al_Lend_Support_to_Belarus_Free_Theater_with_BEING_HAROLD_PINTER_Benefit_at_The_Public_Tonight_117_20110117 |archive-date=5 May 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>  In solidarity with the Belarus Free Theatre, collaborations of actors and theatre companies joined in offering additional benefit readings of ''Being Harold Pinter'' across the United States.<ref name=Gunderson>{{cite web |url=https://huffingtonpost.com/lauren-gunderson/countrywide-free-theatre-_b_809947.html |title=Countrywide, Free Theatre Stands up to Dictators |first=Lauren |last=Gunderson |work=huffingtonpost.com |date=19 January 2011 |access-date=29 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110402215205/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lauren-gunderson/countrywide-free-theatre-_b_809947.html |archive-date=2 April 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>