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The Short Plays of Harold Pinter

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The Short Plays of Harold Pinter is a collection of one-act plays by the acclaimed British playwright, showcasing his mastery of drama and dialogue. This volume includes works such as The Room, The Dumb Waiter, The Lover, and Party Time, spanning various themes of human interaction and power dynamics. The plays range from tense and mysterious to darkly comic, reflecting Pinter's distinctive style that earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Ideal for students, theatre enthusiasts, and readers interested in twentieth-century British drama and the works of Harold Pinter. Also suited for those who appreciate one-act plays and dramatic literature with psychological depth.

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This volume contains the complete short plays of Harold Pinter from The Room, first performed in 1960, to Celebration, which premiered in 2000.

The Room, The Dumb Waiter, A Slight Ache, A Night Out, Night School, The Collection, The Dwarfs, The Lover, Tea Party, The Basement, Landscape, Silence, Monologue, Family Voices, A Kind of Alaska, Victoria Station, One for the Road, Mountain Language, The New World Order, Party Time, Moonlight, Ashes to Ashes, Celebration

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Includes: The Room, The Dumb Waiter, A Slight Ache, A Night Out, Night School, The Collection, The Dwarfs, The Lover, Tea Party, The Basement, Landscape, Silence, Monologue, Family Voices, A Kind of Alaska, Victoria Station, One for the Road, Mountain Language, The New World Order, Party Time, Moonlight, Ashes to Ashes, Celebration

The book commemorates the tenth anniversary of the playwright's death and coincides with Pinter at the Pinter, a celebratory season staging twenty of his one-act plays at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London, 2018.

With a foreword by Antonia Fraser.

'The foremost representative of British drama in the second half of the twentieth century.' - Swedish Academy citation on awarding Harold Pinter the Nobel Prize in Literature, 2005

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780571349913

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 September 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 37.0mm

Width: 125.0mm

Height: 200.0mm

Weight: 715g

Pages: 928

About the Author

Harold Pinter was born in London in 1930. He lived with Antonia Fraser from 1975 and they married in 1980. In 1995 he won the David Cohen British Literature Prize, awarded for a lifetime's achievement in literature. In 1996 he was given the Laurence Olivier Award for a lifetime's achievement in theatre. In 2002 he was made a Companion of Honour for services to literature. In 2005 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and, in the same year, the Wilfred Owen Award for Poetry and the Franz Kafka Award (Prague). In 2006 he was awarded the Europe Theatre Prize and, in 2007, the highest French honour, the Legion d'honneur. He died in December 2008.

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