Plays 1. The Birthday Party, The Room, The Dumb Waiter, A Slight Ache, The Hothouse, A Night Out, The Black and White, The Examina

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Faber Plays
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2005
Edition: Reprint

Description: 386 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: This volume contains Harold Pinters first six plays, including The Birthday Party.The Birthday PartyStanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by two strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare.The Room and The Dumb WaiterIn these two early one-act plays, Harold Pinter reveals himself as already in full control of his unique ability to make dramatic poetry of the banalities of everyday speech and the precision with which it defines character.The HothouseThe Hothouse was first produced in 1980, though Harold Pinter wrote the play in 1958, just before commencing work on The Caretaker. In this compelling study of bureaucratic power, we can see the full emergence of a great and original dramatic talent.

ISBN: 9780571178445