Celebration ; and, The room / Harold Pinter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008.

Standardized Title:

Celebration

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

London (England)--Drama.

London (England).

Genre:

Drama.

Physical Description:

125 pages ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Celebration ; and, The room

Place of Publication:

New York : Grove Press, [1999]

Summary:

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. Celebration is an acerbic portrait of a sated culture choking on its own material success. Startling, full of black humor and wicked satire, Celebration displays a vivid zest for life. Also included in this volume is Pinter's classic play The Room. Both plays are invested with the elements that make Pinter's work unique: the disturbingly familiar dialogue, subtle characterization, and abrupt mood and power shifts among characters, which can be by turns terrifying, moving, and wildly funny.

Contains:

Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008. Room.

Room.

ISBN:

0802137083

OCLC:

43109889