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The Caretaker.

by Harold Pinter

This play was first performed in 1960. Harold Pinter specializes in the tragicomedy of the breakdown of communication, broadly in the tradition of the theatre of the absurds and this is demonstrated in both "The Caretaker" and "The Birthday Party".

Betrayal (Pinter Plays)

by Harold Pinter

Part of a collection of Harold Pinter's works, this is a comedy of sexual manners in which Pinter captures the psyche's sly manoeuvres for self-respect with sardonic forgiveness. Written in 1978 by the author of "The Caretaker", "The Lover", "The Homecoming" and "The Birthday Party".

The Homecoming

by Harold Pinter

When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit London and his family, he finds himself prey to old conflicts. But now it is Ruth who becomes the focus of the family's struggle for supremacy. The playwright's other works include "The Birthday Party" and "Old Times".

The Birthday Party and the Room: Two Plays

The Birthday Party and the Room: Two Plays

by Harold Pinter

In The Birthday Party, a musician who escapes to a dilapidated boarding house becomes the victim of a ritual murder in which everyone- assassins, victim, and observers- implacably plays out the role assigned him by fate.The Room, a derelict boarding house again becomes the scene of a visitation of fate when a blind Black man suddenly arrives to deliver a mysterious message.

Harold Pinter Collected Screenplays 3: The French Lieutenant's Woman / The Heat of the Day / The Comfort of Strangers / The Trial / The Dreaming Child (Collected Screenplays)Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter Collected Screenplays 3: The French Lieutenant's Woman / The Heat of the Day / The Comfort of Strangers / The Trial / The Dreaming Child (Collected Screenplays)

by Harold Pinter

This volume of Pinter's collected screenplays contains: "The French Lieutenant's Woman", "The Heat of the Day", "The Comfort of Strangers", "The Trial" and "The Dreaming Child".

Granta 78: Bad Company (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)

Granta 78: Bad Company (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)

Published in the U.S. since 1979, Granta is a handsomely illustrated paperback featuring outstanding articles. “Granta’s contributors constitute an impossibly distinguished list.” — The Washington Post

Old Times

by Harold Pinter

"Old Times" was first presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre, London, on 1 June 1971. It was revived at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in July 2004.

Celebration and the Room

by Harold Pinter

Jack Kroll in Newsweek has called Harold Pinter "the most fascinating, enigmatic and accomplished dramatist in the English language." Since his first full-length play, The Birthday Party (1958), and continuing with The Homecoming (1965), Pinter has trained a sharp eye on the strange dynamics of modern family life. In his newest play, Celebration, he continues to examine the darker places of relationships. ... (more)

One for the Road

by Harold Pinter

Other Places: Three Plays

by Harold Pinter

Book jacket/back: When this triptich of new plays by Harold Pinter opened in London in October 1982 it was celebrated by critics and audiences alike as an electrifying theatrical event that confirmed once again the author's undisputed place in the forefront of today's dramatists. "The first two plays in 'Other Places' are strange, comic, ansd fascinating, but you would know they were Pinter if you met them in... (more)

Mountain Language

by Harold Pinter

Two plays in one volume: "Mountain Language" - "extraordinarily economical and extraordinarily chilling"; and "Ashes to Ashes" - "dark, elegiac play, studded with brutally and swaggeringly funny jokes".

The Birthday Party (Pinter Plays)

by Harold Pinter

Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding-house by two strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare.

No Man's Land

by Harold Pinter

Do Hirst and Spooner really know each other, or are they performing an elaborate charade? The ambiguity - and the comedy - intensify with the arrival of Briggs and Fraser. All four inhabit a no-man's-land between time present and time remembered, between reality and imagination.

An Unnatural Pursuit and Other PiecesSimon Gray

An Unnatural Pursuit and Other Pieces

by Simon Gray

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The Caretaker.

by Harold Pinter

Betrayal (Pinter Plays)

by Harold Pinter

The Homecoming

by Harold Pinter

The Birthday Party and the Room: Two Plays

by Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter Collected Screenplays 3: The French Lieutenant's Woman / The Heat of the Day / The Comfort of Strangers / The Trial / The Dreaming Child (Collected Screenplays)

by Harold Pinter

Granta 78: Bad Company (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)

Old Times

by Harold Pinter

Celebration and the Room

by Harold Pinter

One for the Road

by Harold Pinter

Other Places: Three Plays

by Harold Pinter

Mountain Language

by Harold Pinter

The Birthday Party (Pinter Plays)

by Harold Pinter

No Man's Land

by Harold Pinter

An Unnatural Pursuit and Other Pieces

by Simon Gray

The Homecoming: A Play By Harold Pinter

by Harold Pinter