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''Remembrance of Things Past'' is the 2000 collaborative stage adaptation by Harold Pinter and director Di Trevis of Harold Pinter's as-yet unproduced ''The Proust Screenplay'' (1977), a screen adaptation of ''À la recherche du temps perdu'', the seven-volume novel by Marcel Proust. In November 2000, the play premiered at the Royal National Theatre, in London, under the direction of Trevis,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Remembrance of Things Past (NT, 2000) ) (Includes full texts of contemporaneous reviews by Nicholas de Jongh and Michael Billington.)〕 who also produced and directed it with a student cast at the Victorian College of the Arts Drama School, in Melbourne, Australia, in October 2002. There also were foreign-language productions of the play in Denmark and Slovenia in 2004.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Remembrance of Things Past )〕 ==''The Proust Screenplay''== In writing ''The Proust Screenplay'', Pinter adapted the seven volumes of Marcel Proust's magnum opus ''À la recherche du temps perdu'' for a film commissioned by the late director Joseph Losey to be directed by Losey (Billington, ''Harold Pinter'' 224–330). According to Pinter in conversation with Jonathan Croall and with Michael Billington, his official biographer, Losey and Pinter were not able to find the financing for the film and there were unsurmountable casting difficulties;〔"Although the main problem was raising the money, there were also difficulties over casting. While Pinter wanted to use only English actors, potential backers from several European countries wanted their own actors to appear in the film. 'You could have ended up with a terrible pudding of actors speaking three thousand different dialects, in broken English,' Pinter suggests. 'I didn't like the sound of that at all' " (Pinter and Croall).〕 yet, after a year's work and other cultural complications pertaining to negotiations about permission to adapt Proust's great work from principals in France, Pinter finished his first draft of the screenplay in November 1972 (Billington, ''Harold Pinter'' 224–330). ''The Proust Screenplay'', in Billington's view "a masterpiece ... () captures Proust's merciless social comedy" (''Harold Pinter'' 230), was eventually published by Grove Press in both hardback and paperback in 1977 and by Faber and Faber in hardback in 1978 (Baker and Ross 115–18). The stage play was published by Faber and Faber in 2000. Pinter's unpublished manuscripts for both the screenplay and the play are held in The Harold Pinter Archive in the British Library,〔See Merritt, "The Harold Pinter Archive in the British Library"; Gale and Hudgins; and Baker and Ross.〕 which the BL acquired permanently in December 2007 and planned to finish cataloguing in late 2008; the catalogue went online on 2 February 2009 and was first accessible the following day.〔Brown, "British Library's ₤1.1m Saves Pinter's Papers for Nation".〕〔British Library, "Pinter Archive Saved for the Nation" (British Library press release).〕〔Howard, "British Library Acquires Pinter Papers". 〕 Michael Bakewell adapted Pinter's screenplay into a radio play also titled ''The Proust Screenplay'' directed by Ned Chaillet and featuring Pinter as narrator, broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 31 December 1995 and as an extended repeat on 11 May 1997.〔(''Giving Proust the Pinter treatment'', Robert Hanks, The Independent, 17 May 1997 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Remembrance of Things Past (play)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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