Harold Pinter's latest play, Celebration, and his first play, The Room directed by the author himself, premièred as a double-bill at London's Almeida Theatre in March 2000.

Author: Harold Pinter

Publisher: Faber & Faber

ISBN: 9780571300662

Category: Drama

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A restaurant. Two curved banquettes. It's a celebration. Violent, wildly funny, Harold Pinter's new play displays a vivid zest for life. In The Room, Harold Pinter's 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 Pinter's latest play, Celebration, and his first play, The Room directed by the author himself, premired as a double-bill at London's Almeida Theatre in March 2000.

It's a celebration. Celebration is Pinter's new play which displays a vivid zest for life. In The Room, Pinter's first play, he reveals himself in full control of his ability to make dramatic poetry of the banalities of everyday speech.

Author: Harold Pinter

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

ISBN: 0573628289

Category: London (England)

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A restaurant. Two curved banquettes. It's a celebration. Celebration is Pinter's new play which displays a vivid zest for life. In The Room, Pinter's first play, he reveals himself in full control of his ability to make dramatic poetry of the banalities of everyday speech.

Together these essays illuminate with affection and insight the work, the man behind the work, and the appeal of both.

Author: Richard Eyre

Publisher:

ISBN: 0571206611

Category: Drama

Page: 75

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Harold Pinter is undoubtedly one of the world's major playwrights. In this tribute to him on his seventieth birthday, a number of people from theatre, television and radio and the world of cricket and political commentary came together to celebrate the writer and the man in specially written pieces for this book. Together, all these illuminate with affection, humour and insight the work, the man behind the work and the appeal of both. With an introduction by Richard Eyre, the contributors include Alan Bates, Eileen Diss, Lindsay Duncan, Simon Gray, David Hare, Ronald Harwood, Douglas Hodge, Patrick Marber, Louis Marks, Ian McDiarmid and Jonathan Kent, Edna O'Brien, Peggy Paterson, John Pilger, Hilary Wainwright, Janet Whitaker, Penelope Wilton, Robert Winder, and Henry Woolf.

Author: HAROLD PINTER

Publisher:

ISBN: 0573112835

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22 (Sun) Radio 3 'Words and Music: Harold Pinter': chosen read​ings and music.
June 7 (Sun) 'Harold 16 (Tue) Hackney Spring/summer 'Harold Pinter' special
issue, September 27 (Sun) Pinter: A Celebration' Ol, directedby IanRickson.

Author: W. Baker

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9781137317254

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 374

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The most detailed chronological account of Harold Pinter to appear, this new volume in the Author Chronologies series traces the daily activities of the Nobel Prize winning author. It is based upon published and unpublished materials, and discussion with his close friends, and is a basic reference tool for all Pinter students and scholars.

In the case of Celebration, the sexual exploitation of women by men is a clear
subordinate theme within the play's more ... play, in his essay “Harold Pinter: from
Moonlight to Celebration”, as “present[ing] a microcosm of post-Thatcherite
Britain, ...

Author: Andrew Wyllie

Publisher: Macmillan International Higher Education

ISBN: 9781137315670

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 152

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This Reader's Guide synthesises the key criticism on Pinter's work over the last half century. Andrew Wyllie and Catherine Rees examine critical approaches and reactions to the major plays from MA26s and the press, along themes such as Absurdism, politics and gender identity.

'Pinter's Poetry Got Under the Skin.' Guardian.com. December 30. Accessed
November 5, 2015. http://www. guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/dec/30/
harold-pinter-poetry. N.P. Hare, David. 2000. 'David Hare.' Harold Pinter: A
Celebration ...

Author: Basil Chiasson

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9781137508164

Category: Performing Arts

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This volume is the first to provide a book-length study of Pinter’s overtly political activity. With chapters on political drama, poetry, and speeches, it charts a consistent tension between aesthetics and politics through Pinter’s later career and defines the politics of the work in terms of a pronounced sensory dimension and capacity to affect audiences. The book brings to light unpublished letters and drafts from the Pinter Archive in the British Library and draws his political poems and speeches, which have previously been overshadowed by his plays, into the foreground. Intended for students, instructors, and researchers in drama and theatre, performance studies, literature, and media studies, this book celebrates Pinter’s later life and work by discerning a coherent political voice and project and by registering the complex ways that project troubles the divide between aesthetics and politics.

Harold Pinter's Theatre of Cruelty . " In Pinter at Sixty , ed . Katherine H. Burkman
and John L. Kundert - Gibbs , 27–36 . Bloomington : Indiana University Press .
Eyre , Richard , ed . 2000. Harold Pinter : A Celebration . London : Faber and ...

Author: Charles Grimes

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

ISBN: 0838640508

Category: Drama

Page: 259

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Harold Pinter's Politics examines the expression of Pinter's political beliefs across every aspect and era of his artistic career. The fierce political stances of this important dramatist have been embodied in plays, screenplays, and his career as a theatrical director. Traditionally associated with absurdism, minimalism, and the dramatization of uncertainty, Pinter's name is now a byword for anti-authoritarian and anti-American politics. This transition has been in evidence from the earliest phases of his writing; all of Pinter's work emerges from his political views. His uniqueness as a political artist is that he is pessimistic about changing his audience or making it see its complicity in the horrors of the modern world. These horrors are dramatized through images of torture and oppression culminating in moments of silence that index the full extent of the destruction unleashed by the forces of power against dissidence.

Pinter's. plays. The double bill of The Room and Celebration at the Almeida
Theatre in March 2000I provided a unique occasion on which to attempt to obtain
some view or perspective on Pinter. Here were his first and his latest play, forty-
three ...

Author: Peter Raby

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 1139828398

Category: Drama

Page: 323

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Harold Pinter was one of the world's leading and most controversial writers, and his impact and influence continues to grow. This Companion examines the wide range of Pinter's work - his writing for theatre, radio, television and screen, and also his highly successful work as a director and actor. Substantially updated and revised, this second edition covers the many developments in Pinter's career since the publication of the first edition, including his Nobel Prize for Literature win in 2005, his appearance in Samuel Beckett's play Krapp's Last Tape and recent productions of his plays. Containing essays written by both academics and leading practitioners, the volume places Pinter's writing within the critical and theatrical context of his time and considers its reception worldwide. Including three new essays, new production photographs, five updated and revised chapters and an extended chronology, the Companion provides fresh perspectives on Pinter's work.

Published to celebrate Harold Pinter becoming Nobel Laureate in 2005, this box set contains four of Pinter's plays: The Birthday Party, No Man's Land, Mountain Language and Celebration.

Author: Harold Pinter

Publisher:

ISBN: 0571232256

Category: English drama

Page: 88

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SOME CONCLUDING REMARKS When Harold Pinter directed his latest play
Celebration at the Almeida Theatre in March 2000, he decided to mount it in
doublebill with his first, The Room. For many this seemed a gesture of closure, a
public ...

Author: Mark Taylor-Batty

Publisher: A&C Black

ISBN: 9781408175316

Category: Drama

Page: 320

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The Theatre of Harold Pinter offers a unique assesment of one of Britain's most influential dramatists, combining a chronological survey of Pinter's entire work for the stage with a series of incisive critical essays from leading scholars.

... Wildest Dreams, Harold Pinter The Birthday Party (UK), The Homecoming (UK)
, The Lover (UK), Celebration (UK); in the USA the following used by permission
of Grove/Atlantic Inc The Birthday Party © 1959, 1960, 1965 by Harold Pinter, ...

Author: Andrew Wyllie

Publisher: Intellect Books

ISBN: 9781841502038

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 160

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Examines how British playwrights, actors, and directors brought women's sexuality and gay and lesbian issues to the cutting-edge of drama after World War II. This book combines close reading of plays with descriptions of the theoretical and socio-political context of their first productions and subsequent reception.

... One for the Road; Mountain Language; Family Voices; A Kind of Alaska;
Victoria Station; Precisely; The New World Order; Party Time; Moonlight: Ashes to
Ashes; Celebration; Umbrellas; God's District; Apart from That Harold Pinter.

Author: Harold Pinter

Publisher: Faber & Faber

ISBN: 9780571301416

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 544

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This revised third volume of Harold Pinter's work includes The Homecoming, Old Times, No Man's Land, four shorter plays, six revue sketches and a short story. It also contains the speech given by Pinter in 1970 on being awarded the German Shakespeare Prize. The Homecoming 'Of all Harold Pinter's major plays, The Homecoming has the most powerful narrative line... You are fascinated, lured on, sucked into the vortex.' Sunday Telegraph 'The most intense expression of compressed violence to be found anywhere in Pinter's plays.' The Times Old Times 'A rare quality of high tension is evident, revealing in Old Times a beautifully controlled and expressive formality that has seldom been achieved since the plays of Racine.' Financial Times 'Harold Pinter's poetic, Proustian Old Times has the inscrutability of a mysterious picture, and the tension of a good thriller.' Independent No Man's Land '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

Introduction In an interview in 1966, when Harold Pinter described himself as “not
a very inventive writer;” he had Brechtian ... While imagination of this kind cannot
but be obvious to any readers of Pinter's plays from The Room to Celebration, ...

Author: Mary F. Brewer

Publisher: Rodopi

ISBN: 9789042025561

Category: Drama

Page: 269

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This collection of essays focuses on one of Harold Pinter's most popular and challenging plays,The Dumb Waiter, while addressing also a range of significant issues current in Pinter studies and which are applicable beyond this play. The interesting and provocative dialogues between established and emerging scholars featured here provide close readings of The Dumb Waiter, within relevant cultural and historical contexts and from a range of theoretical perspectives. The essays range over issues of autobiography and theater, genre studies, and the impact of Pinter's political activism on his dramatic production, among others. The collection is also concerned with the meaning of the play when assessed against other example's of Pinter's work, both dramatic and non-dramatic writing. Each contributor shows a gift for presenting a complex argument in an accessible style, making this book an important resource for a wide range of readers, from undergraduates to postgraduates and specialist researchers. The collection offers essays that approachThe Dumb Waiter, from an interdisciplinary perspective and as both a literary and dramatic text. Thus, the book should be of equal significance to those encountering Pinter within the context of English Studies, drama, and performance.

Papers : The Harold Pinter Archive at the British Library is the most extensive
collection of Pinter material , including ... Dickinson University Press , 2005 ) ;
Harold Pinter : A Celebration ( London : Faber & Faber , 2000 ) ; Harold Pinter.

Author: Thomson Gale (Firm)

Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp

ISBN: 0787681490

Category: Biography & Autobiography

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A biographical-bibliographical guide to the writers who have received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Provides entries for each Nobel Prize laureate. Entries also include the Nobel Prize in Literature presentation speech for the corresponding year and the banquet speech given by the Nobel Prize laureate.

Biography : Michael Billington , The Life and Work of Harold Pinter ( London :
Faber & Faber , 1996 ) . ... London : Garland , 1990 ) ; revised as Pinter at 70 : A
Casebook ( New York : Routledge , 2001 ) ; Harold Pinter : A Celebration (
London ...

Author: John Stanley Bull

Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp

ISBN: STANFORD:36105119944119

Category: Biography & Autobiography

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Embraces the work of writers working in theatrical traditions ranging from the classic well-made play to the most radical avant-garde pieces. This variety is indicative of the fact that this period is one of the most important in British drama, comparable to the late-Elizabethan/Jacobean and post-Restoration eras in terms of the quantity and quality of new work and surpassing both of them in the sheer variety of theatrical offerings.

—HAROLD PINTER, The Homecoming Playwrights love to watch audiences die
laughing. Harold Pinter's comedy, especially his recent Celebration (1999), kills
us with laughter. We laugh helplessly at his darkly delightful Celebration, ...

Author: Leslie Kane

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781135883560

Category: Performing Arts

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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author: Nobelstiftelsen

Publisher:

ISBN: UOM:39015064851622

Category: Nobel prizes

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Vol. for 1901 has a sketch of Alfred Nobel and his works, by P.T. Cleve.

06 lan Shuttleworth IN CELEBRATION OF HAROLD PINTER This month Harold
Pinter was presented with the Europe Theatre Prize ; in the past year he has also
won the Wilfred Owen Poetry Prize and the Franz Kafka Prize - plus , of course ...

Author:

Publisher:

ISBN: STANFORD:36105122364388

Category: Theater

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Pinter has been praised at the Lincoln Center Festival as all great artists should
be . And for those who ... As a playwright he was going to use his real name -
Harold Pinter . The play in which ... In Harold Pinter : A Celebration . London :
Faber ...

Author: Lêda Maria Braga Tomitch

Publisher:

ISBN: UTEXAS:059173022291386

Category: English literature

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Este volume da série Estudos Culturais reúne 56 trabalhos de pesquisadores brasileiros e estrangeiros, apresentados durante o XXXII SENAPULLI (seminário Nacional de Professores de Literaturas de Língua Inglesa) nas seguintes áreas - literaturas americana, anglo-irlandesa, britânica, canadense e indiana; diálogos e Shakespeare.