Edinburgh Festival 2011: Julian Sands on Pinter
With his tanned face and blond hair, Nicole Farhi suit and nattily tied scarf, Julian Sands is every inch the Hollywood actor he has been since the late Eighties, when he left these shores to pursue a successful film career following his breakthrough in 1985’s A Room With a View. He has since appeared in the television series Stargate, Smallville and 24, but now Sands, a handsome 53 year-old, is returning to the UK to make his Edinburgh Fringe debut in a one-man show.
“I’m an ingénu,” he says, laughing. “I’ll be on the streets handing out my fliers.” One suspects there will be no shortage of takers for those leaflets, which will be promoting A Celebration of Harold Pinter. It’s an hour of Pinter’s poetry, Sands’s recollections of working with the Nobel laureate and snippets from interviews with the great man.
The show, which will tour the UK after Edinburgh, started life in 2005, when Pinter asked Sands to read his poetry at a benefit in St Stephen Walbrook Church in London. Pinter, by then ill with the oesophageal cancer that would eventually kill him in late 2008, felt the venue’s challenging acoustics would be too much for his weakened voice.
How did Pinter react to his performance? “He sat in the front row with his stone basilisk stare,” Sands says, laughing at the memory. “But it was wonderful to be an agent of the poems’ dissemination.” He then stops himself. “I did say dissemination, not insemination, didn’t I? Harold might have allowed himself the flicker of a smile at that.”
Most people know Pinter’s poetry – if at all – for the deeply felt, often angry political works, but Sands also includes some of his love poems. “His poems after 1975, which is when he began his relationship with Antonia [Lady Antonia Fraser, the historian] are of a great clarity; they’re not great long flowery sonnets but very precise, measured evocations of the human heart. These are some of the greatest love poems I’ve come across in the English language. He had a reputation for being fierce or dour, but to read the tenderness, the delicacy of feeling he’s able to express, is an absolute revelation.
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