Celebration and the Room : Two Plays
Overview
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.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780802137081
- ISBN-10: 0802137083
- Publisher: Grove Press
- Publish Date: June 2000
- Dimensions: 8.26 x 5.5 x 0.43 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.37 pounds
- Page Count: 176
- Reading Level: Ages 9-11
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