Celebration and the Room: Two Plays (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780802137081)

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.

Author: Harold Pinter
ISBN-10: 0802137083
ISBN-13: 9780802137081
Publisher: Grove Press
Language: English
Published: 06/12/2000
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.50w x 0.43d