Harold Pinter - English playwright, poet, director, actor, public figure; winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2005. One of the most influential British playwrights of his time. The play “No Man's Land” addresses not only the themes of the past, the impossibility of its verification and memory, which were previously present in Pinter’s work, but touches on such pain points of human nature as old age, the fear of approaching death , the inevitability and heaviness of memories, the fear of change and the choice of the prison of memory rather than accepting the rapid passage of time towards the end. (Nikitina T.I.)