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Theatre: Pinter celebrates with new work and old Harold Pinter will be 70 this year. To mark the occasion, the Almeida Theatre is reviving his first play in a double bill with his latest. Robert Butler plots the career of a British icon

On Wednesday the Almeida Theatre will be reviving a play that was des- cribed by Noel Coward, when it opened in London, as "completely incomprehensible and insultingly boring". The Room was the first play that Harold Pinter wrote. On Wednesday the Almeida will also be presenting the world premiere

Publication: The Independent - London

Trial by Tricycle Theatre The Stephen Lawrence inquiry represents a watershed in the history of British race relations. Now, the team which made 'Srebrenica' has turned it into a play. Robert Butler followed its progress, from read-through to first night

The cast party after last Tuesday's press night of The Colour of Justice took place in a snazzy studio space upstairs at the Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn, north-west London. It was close to midnight when I saw Neville Lawrence, the father of Stephen Lawrence, the young black man who was murdered

Publication: The Independent - London

The Butler Did It. But How?

Arthur Inch, a butler by profession, once clocked 18 miles on his daily rounds at the Marquess of Londonderry's palatial London town house. Later, in other stately English homes, he did what butlers do best: overseeing the setting of tables with more pieces of flatware than most of us have a clue

Publication: The Washington Post

A Royal Butler On a Budget - New York Times

CONFIDENTIALLY, I did have a little problem with Barbara Walters the butler is saying on the phone from England. ''20/20. They said they needed something new -- would I be willing to discuss A, B and C? -- and of course I could not. A relationship between two people is a very special thing. It

Publication: The New York Times

Book Notes; Butler's Revelations on a Life of Service - New York Times

AFTER almost 10 years of ''dining out'' on tales Christopher Allen told about his life as an English butler in Europe and the United States, he and his wife, Kimberly Burton Allen, decided to take the stories beyond the dinner table. ''Just as I was when I first met Chris in an Irish pub and

Publication: The New York Times

BUGGED TOO; Spies 'listened to' 4 more top UN officials Richard Butler I'd walk in Central Park to escape Boutros Boutros-Ghali I was told bugs in home and office Hans Blix Your phone was bugged in Iraq Enrique Berruga Were calls to diplomats listened to?(News)

Byline: OONAGH BLACKMAN Deputy Political Editor FOUR more United Nations officials yesterday revealed that they were also bugged by British and US spies. Ex-UN weapons inspector Richard Butler said he was forced to walk in Central Park, New York, to avoid eavesdroppers when he made a phone call.

Publication: The Mirror (London, England)

Careers: Will that be all, Sir?; P. Diddy and Nicolas Cage both have one, and Madonna wants one. A butler is the latest celebrity accessory. Trainee `Jeeves' Marion Loftus from Nottingham is discovering what's expected of a thoroughly modern butler.(Features)

Byline: Sophie Tweedale `Being a butler never crossed my mind before I hit 30. I was just a normal girl from an ordinary background who'd gone to college and was working her way up in the catering industry. But I wanted more out of life. `Then I broke my leg skiing and had to spend three months

Publication: The Mirror (London, England)

what the butler did

The bizarre life story of Ian Ross - a tale of boom, bust and salvation as a US billionaire's butler - will soon be made into a film starring heartthrob Rupert Everett. EMILY SHEFFIELD reports IAN ROSS was broke. He and his family were, in his words, "down to our last tube of toothpaste". Sure, he

Publication: Evening Standard - London