The Short Plays of Harold Pinter
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.
The Short Plays of Harold Pinter (Faber Drama) – by Harold Pinter
About the Book
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.
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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