Harold Pinter

Si Dante pren Virgili com a guia per a la seva travessia poètica, Pinter s'endinsa en el particular descens als inferns contemporanis que es "Terra de Ningú".

In The Captive, Prousts narrator describes living in his mothers Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her.

This volume contains Harold Pinters first six plays, including The Birthday Party.The Birthday Party 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.Mr Pinters terrifying blend of pathos and hatred fuses unforgettably into the stuff of art.Sunday TimesThe Room and The Dumb Waiter In 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.Harold Pinter is the most original writer to have emerged from the "new wave" of dramatists who gave fresh life to the British theatre in the fifties and early sixties.The TimesThe 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.The Hothouse is at once sinister and hilarious, suggesting an unholy alliance of Kafka and Feydeau.Spectator

Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare.The Birthday Party was first performed in 1958 and is now a modern classic, produced and studied throughout the world.

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.Old Times is a joyous, wonderful play that people will talk about as long as we have a theatre.New York TimesWhat am I writing about? Not the weasel under the cocktail cabinet . . . I can sum up none of my plays. I can describe none of them, except to say: that is what happened. This is what they said. That is what they did. Harold Pinter

Arts, Truth and Politics is Harold Pinters lecture on receipt of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature.

The work of our best living playwright in its command of the language and its power to erect a coherent structure in a twilight zone of confusion and dismay.The Times 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 Foster. All four inhabit a no-mans-land between time present and a time remembered, between reality and imagination.No Mans Land was first presented at the National Theatre at the Old Vic, London, in 1975, revived at the Almeida Theatre, London, with Harold Pinter as Hirst and revived by the National Theatre, directed by Harold Pinter, in 2001.

The Hothouse was first produced in 1980, though Harold Pinter wrote the play in 1958 just before commencing work on The Caretaker. The Hothouse is one of Pinters best plays: one that deals with the worm-eaten corruption of bureaucracy, the secrecy of government and the disjunction between language and experience. Michael Billington.The Hothouse is at once sinister and hilarious, suggesting an unholy alliance between Kafka and Fedyeau. The National Theatre presented a major revival of The Hothouse in July 2007. The foremost representative of British drama in the second half of the twentieth century. Swedish Academy citation on awarding Harold Pinter the Nobel Prize for Literature, 2005

The Room and The Dumb Waiter In 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.Harold Pinter is the most original writer to have emerged from the "new wave" of dramatists who gave fresh life to the British theatre in the fifties and early sixties.The Times

Harold Pinter can sketch a world in a few lines which reveal the power of his vision focussed on the horrors that have been and that are to come.

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 playwrights 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.

A restaurant. Two curved banquettes. Its a celebration. Violent, wildly funny, Harold Pinters new play displays a vivid zest for life. In The Room, Harold Pinters first play, he 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. Harold Pinters latest play, Celebration, and his first play, The Room directed by the author himself, premiered as a double-bill at Londons Almeida Theatre in March 2000.

Various Voices is the only collection of Harold Pinters prose, poems and political writing to span his career. This new edition includes a remarkable interview in which he reflects on his time as an evacuee in Cornwall during the Second World War, as well as new prose, poems and his Nobel Speech.

This volume contains a selection of early works by Harold Pinter. In the title play, everything in Floras garden is lovely, and would be for Edward too, if it were not for the slight ache in his eyes and the mysterious matchseller at the gate. This edition also includes A Night Out, The Dwarfs and several revue sketches.

Unico romanzo del commediografo inglese, I nani e stato scritto nei primi anni'50, e poi abbandonato per quasi quarant'anni. Nel 1960 Pinter ne ha trattouna commedia e soltanto nel 1989 lo ha ripreso in mano, lasciandolosostanzialmente immutato, ma decidendo di pubblicarlo. E un testo denso edimpegnativo, che anticipa molti dei temi della produzione teatraledell'autore. Dominato dai dialoghi, discorsi fatti di salti, silenzi,argomenti abbandonati e ripresi, sullo sfondo della Londra cupa dell'East End,mette in scena quattro personaggi, tre uomini e una donna, alle presesoprattutto con la loro impossibilita di comunicare.

Le prime rappresentazioni delle opere di Harold Pinter furono letteralmente stroncate da quasi tutta la critica.Si scrisse che era un autore eccentrico, inaccettabile, incomprensibile, che non aveva nulla da dire. Oggi e forse l''autore vivente piu rappresentato al mondo ma, come lui stesso tiene a sottolineare: "Adesso sono diventato comprensibile, accettabile, eppure le mie commedie sono sempre le stesse di allora. Non ho cambiato una sola battuta!" In quest''opera sono raccolti i testi che hanno rivelato il drammaturgo inglese e ne hanno decretato poi il successo internazionale in quanto erede e continuatore di maestri come Beckett, Genet e Ionesco.