This volume contains the complete short plays of Harold Pinter from The Room, first performed in 1960, to Celebration, which premiered in 2000.
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.
Includes The Room, The Dumb Waiter, A Slight Ache, A Night Out, Night School, The Dwarfs, The Collections, 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.
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.
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