¡°Some years ago at Black Stripe Theatre in Tokyo, we did a reading of Harold Pinter¡¯s one-act play ¡®One for the Road,¡¯ and I have ever since wanted to put it on.
¡°Back then, I was asked to take the part of Nicolas (an officer in a totalitarian state who thinks nothing of torturing people) ¡ª which I did with mounting horror. There were some young women there, and afterward it was quite clear that none of them wanted to come near me.¡±
A longtime Japan resident, and university teacher here, Timothy Harris ¡ª a British-born stage and screen actor, narrator and English-diction coach for Japanese opera singers (as well as for the chorus of the Rolling Stones¡¯ recent ¡°14 On Fire¡± tour) ¡ª was explaining why he chose to stage the two short Pinter plays ¡°One for the Road¡± (1984)¡± and ¡°Ashes to Ashes (1996)¡± with Black Stripe Theatre.
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