Ian Smith is a critic, writer and musician. He has held posts as a lecturer in modern and Renaissance literature at the Universities of Oxford, London, Warwick and Boston. He was a long-term friend of Harold Pinter (and they played in the same cricket team).

'Ian Smith paints a detailed picture of one of theatre's leading men in his collection of interviews, reviews and essays... a fascinating insight'

• Foreword by Harold Pinter; Introduction; Pinter on Pinter; Harry Thompson, New Theatre Magazine, II.2, January 1961; Lawrence M. Bensky, The Paris Review, 1966; Miriam Gross, The Observer, 5 October 1980; Anna Ford, Omnibus/The Listener, 27 October 1988; Mireia Aragay and Ramon Simo, Universitat de Barcelona, Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya, 6 December 1996; Voices from the Past; Mick Goldstein's letter to Michael Billington, 1984; Henry Woolf's article in The Guardian, 2002. Actors and Directors; Peter Hall interviewed by Catherine Itzin and Simon Trussler, Theatre Quarterly, No. 16, 1974; Barry Foster; Susan Engel; Roger Lloyd Pack; Roger Davidson; Katie Mitchell; Douglas Hodge; Harry Burton; Sam Mendes; Acknowledgements.

Ian Smith is a critic, writer and musician. He has held posts as a lecturer in modern and Renaissance literature at the Universities of Oxford, London, Warwick and Boston. He was a long-term friend of Harold Pinter (and they played in the same cricket team).

'Ian Smith paints a detailed picture of one of theatre's leading men in his collection of interviews, reviews and essays... a fascinating insight'

• Foreword by Harold Pinter; Introduction; Pinter on Pinter; Harry Thompson, New Theatre Magazine, II.2, January 1961; Lawrence M. Bensky, The Paris Review, 1966; Miriam Gross, The Observer, 5 October 1980; Anna Ford, Omnibus/The Listener, 27 October 1988; Mireia Aragay and Ramon Simo, Universitat de Barcelona, Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya, 6 December 1996; Voices from the Past; Mick Goldstein's letter to Michael Billington, 1984; Henry Woolf's article in The Guardian, 2002. Actors and Directors; Peter Hall interviewed by Catherine Itzin and Simon Trussler, Theatre Quarterly, No. 16, 1974; Barry Foster; Susan Engel; Roger Lloyd Pack; Roger Davidson; Katie Mitchell; Douglas Hodge; Harry Burton; Sam Mendes; Acknowledgements.