Harold Pinter is hot again in the UK, and after a relatively quiet 75th birthday year for the playwright, it seems that everyone in theatre wants to make up for lost time. “One sign of any genuine creative artist is that he or she is always ahead of the game: they see or hear something that the rest of us don’t. Both artistically and politically, Pinter has persistently been ahead of the pack; and now the public and critics are at last catching up with him.”