The Birthday Party (1957) and The Dumb Waiter (1957) are plays written by whom?
"at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London starring Toby Jones (who reprised the role of Stanley after his 2016 performance for BBC Radio 3), Stephen Mangan, Zoe Wanamaker and Pearl Mackie, 9 January - 14 April 2018. The Birthday Party (play) The Birthday Party (1957) is the second full-length play by Harold Pinter. It is one of his best-known and most frequently performed plays. In the setting of a rundown seaside boarding house, a little birthday party is turned into a nightmare on the unexpected arrival of two sinister strangers. The play has been classified as a comedy of menace, characterised"
"work … describ[ing] Pinter as one of 'several playwrights who have been tentatively lumped together as the ""non-naturalists"" or ""abstractionists"" ' (28)"" (Merritt 225). His article ""Comedy of Menace,"" Merritt continues, centers on ""The Birthday Party"" because it is the only play of Pinter's that Wardle had seen [and reviewed] at the time, yet he speculates on the basis of ""descriptions of [Pinter's] other plays, 'The Room' and 'The Dumb Waiter', [that Pinter] is a writer dogged by one image—the womb"" (33). Mentioning the acknowledged ""literary influences"" on Pinter's work—""Beckett, Kafka and American gangster films""—Wardle argues that "" 'The Birthday"
"Harold Pinter Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include ""The Birthday Party"" (1957), ""The Homecoming"" (1964), and ""Betrayal"" (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include ""The Servant"" (1963), ""The Go-Between"" (1971), ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"" (1981), ""The Trial"" (1993), and ""Sleuth"" (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and"
"his postgraduate work. Pinter wrote it in three days. The production was described by Billington as ""a staggeringly confident debut which attracted the attention of a young producer, Michael Codron, who decided to present Pinter's next play, ""The Birthday Party"", at the Lyric Hammersmith, in 1958."" Written in 1957 and produced in 1958, Pinter's second play, ""The Birthday Party"", one of his best-known works, was initially both a commercial and critical disaster, despite an enthusiastic review in ""The Sunday Times"" by its influential drama critic Harold Hobson, which appeared only after the production had closed and could not be reprieved."
"Celebration (play) Celebration is a play by British playwright Harold Pinter. It was first presented as a double-bill, with Pinter's first play ""The Room"" on Thursday 16 March 2000 at the Almeida Theatre in London. The plot revolves around three couples dining in the most expensive restaurant in town (an allusion to The Ivy restaurant in London). At one table are sat two brothers, Lambert and Matt, and two sisters, Prue and Julie. Lambert and Julie are married, as are Matt and Prue. They are celebrating Lambert and Julie's wedding anniversary. Seated at another table are Russell and Suki, who"
"Roberta Levitow, Charles Newell, Roman Paska, Mary B. Robinson, David Saint, Joel Sass and Darko Tresnjak. Alan Schneider Alan Schneider (December 12, 1917 – May 3, 1984) was an American theatre director responsible for more than 100 theatre productions. In 1984 he was honored with a Drama Desk Special Award for serving a wide range of playwrights. He directed the 1956 American premiere of Samuel Beckett's ""Waiting for Godot"", Edward Albee's ""Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"" and ""Tiny Alice""; the American première of Joe Orton's ""Entertaining Mr Sloane"", Harold Pinter's ""The Birthday Party"", as well as Pinter's ""The Dumb Waiter"","
"Beckett, particularly on his early work; they became friends, sending each other drafts of their works in progress for comments. Pinter wrote ""The Hothouse"" in 1958, which he shelved for over 20 years (See ""Overtly political plays and sketches"" below). Next he wrote ""The Dumb Waiter"" (1959), which premièred in Germany and was then produced in a double bill with ""The Room"" at the Hampstead Theatre Club, in London, in 1960. It was then not produced often until the 1980s, and it has been revived more frequently since 2000, including the West End Trafalgar Studios production in 2007. The first"
"to Pinter's writing: Early in his writing career Pinter admitted to three influences: Franz Kafka, American gangster films, and Samuel Beckett. . . . At that time his plays, more than those of any other plawright's , were responsible for the newly coined term 'comedy of menace.' This phrase certainly makes sense when applied to ""The Birthday Party"" . . . or to ""The Dumb Waiter"". . . . But 'menace' is hardly the word for ""The Caretaker"", and still less for subsequent plays in which Pinter increasingly exchanged his derelict settings and down-and-out characters for environments of moneyed elegance"
"called ""The Birthday Party"". Codron has said that it was his Jewishness that helped him recognise the play's and Pinter's worth."" ""The Birthday Party"" had its première at the Arts Theatre, in Cambridge, England, on 28 April 1958, where the play was ""warmly received"" on its pre-London tour, in Oxford and Wolverhampton, where it also met with a ""positive reception"" as ""the most enthralling experience the Grand Theatre has given us in many months."" On 19 May 1958, the production moved to the Lyric Opera House, Hammersmith (now the Lyric Hammersmith), for its début in London, where it was a"
"has ever been planned and this perhaps accounts partly for the play's relative obscurity in comparison with other contemporary works such as ""Look Back In Anger"" and ""A Taste of Honey"". The Party (play) The Party is a play by the British dramatist, actor and director Jane Arden (1927–82) which was first staged at the New Theatre, London on 28 May 1958. The play was directed by Charles Laughton and starred, in addition to Laughton himself, Albert Finney, Laughton's wife Elsa Lanchester, Ann Lynn, Joyce Redman, and John Welch. Following generally enthusiastic reviews ""The Party"" ran for six months at"
"Indiana University at Bloomington; the Mandeville Special Collections Library, Geisel Library, at the University of California, San Diego; the British Film Institute, in London; and the Margaret Herrick Library, Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, California. Harold Pinter Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include ""The Birthday Party"" (1957), ""The Homecoming"" (1964), and ""Betrayal"" (1978), each of"
"the stage. Again In the 1950s, the absurdist play ""Waiting for Godot"" (1955) (originally ""En attendant Godot"", 1952), by the French resident, Irishman Samuel Beckett profoundly affected British drama. The Theatre of the Absurd influenced Harold Pinter (1930-2008), (The Birthday Party, 1958), whose works are often characterised by menace or claustrophobia. Beckett also influenced Tom Stoppard (1937-) (""Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead"",1966). Stoppard's works are, however, also notable for their high-spirited wit and the great range of intellectual issues which he tackles in different plays. Both Pinter and Stoppard continued to have new plays produced into the 1990s. Michael Frayn"
"at this second performance that the play was first reviewed by the London ""Sunday Times"" by drama critic Harold Hobson, who had helped to found the Drama Festival with some of his colleagues. The original production featured the following cast: The play was presented later at the Hampstead Theatre Club on 21 January 1960 as part of a double bill with ""The Dumb Waiter"". It was directed by Harold Pinter and featured the following cast: The double bill was transferred on 8 March 1960 to the Royal Court Theatre where it was directed by Anthony Page with the following cast:"
"The Cocktail Party The Cocktail Party is a play by T. S. Eliot. Elements of the play are based on ""Alcestis"", by the Ancient Greek playwright Euripides. The play was the most popular of Eliot's seven plays in his lifetime, although his 1935 play, ""Murder in the Cathedral"", is better remembered today. It was written while Eliot was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1948. ""The Cocktail Party"" was first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1949. In 1950 the play had successful runs in London and New York theaters (the Broadway production received the 1950"
"Alan Schneider Alan Schneider (December 12, 1917 – May 3, 1984) was an American theatre director responsible for more than 100 theatre productions. In 1984 he was honored with a Drama Desk Special Award for serving a wide range of playwrights. He directed the 1956 American premiere of Samuel Beckett's ""Waiting for Godot"", Edward Albee's ""Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"" and ""Tiny Alice""; the American première of Joe Orton's ""Entertaining Mr Sloane"", Harold Pinter's ""The Birthday Party"", as well as Pinter's ""The Dumb Waiter"", ""The Collection"", and a trilogy of Pinter's plays under the title ""Other Places"" (including ""One for"
"Terence Rattigan and Noël Coward were challenged in the 1950s by these Angry Young Men, in plays like John Osborne's ""Look Back in Anger"" (1956). Arnold Wesker and Nell Dunn also brought social concerns to the stage. Again in the 1950s, the absurdist play ""Waiting for Godot"" (1955) (originally ""En attendant Godot"", 1952), by Irish writer Samuel Beckett profoundly affected British drama. The Theatre of the Absurd influenced Harold Pinter (born 1930), author of (The Birthday Party, 1958), whose works are often characterised by menace or claustrophobia. Beckett also influenced Tom Stoppard (born 1937) (""Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead"", 1966)."
"H. Gale. Tampa, FL: University of Tampa Press, 1997. 73–84. (For ""Contents"", see typed list at ""HaroldPinter.org"". [Note: there are some typographical errors.]) Pinter, Harold. The Hothouse"": A Play by Harold Pinter"". New York: Grove Press (Distributed by Random House), 1980. . The Hothouse The Hothouse (1958/1980) is a full-length tragicomedy written by Harold Pinter in the winter of 1958 between ""The Birthday Party"" (1957) and ""The Caretaker"" (1959). After writing ""The Hothouse"" in the winter of 1958 and following the initial commercial failure of ""The Birthday Party"", Pinter put the play aside; in 1979 he re-read it and directed"
"The Hothouse The Hothouse (1958/1980) is a full-length tragicomedy written by Harold Pinter in the winter of 1958 between ""The Birthday Party"" (1957) and ""The Caretaker"" (1959). After writing ""The Hothouse"" in the winter of 1958 and following the initial commercial failure of ""The Birthday Party"", Pinter put the play aside; in 1979 he re-read it and directed its first production, at Hampstead Theatre, where it opened on 24 April 1980, transferring to the Ambassadors Theatre on 25 June 1980, and it was first published, also in 1980, by Eyre Methuen. The play received its American premiere at the Trinity"
"was first shown on More4 on Monday 26 February 2007. Celebration (play) Celebration is a play by British playwright Harold Pinter. It was first presented as a double-bill, with Pinter's first play ""The Room"" on Thursday 16 March 2000 at the Almeida Theatre in London. The plot revolves around three couples dining in the most expensive restaurant in town (an allusion to The Ivy restaurant in London). At one table are sat two brothers, Lambert and Matt, and two sisters, Prue and Julie. Lambert and Julie are married, as are Matt and Prue. They are celebrating Lambert and Julie's wedding"
"working class, to explore social issues and political issues. The drawing room plays of the post war period, typical of dramatists like Terence Rattigan and Noël Coward were challenged in the 1950s by these Angry Young Men, in plays like John Osborne's ""Look Back in Anger"" (1956). Arnold Wesker and Nell Dunn also brought social concerns to the stage. Again in the 1950s, the absurdist play ""Waiting for Godot"" (1955) (originally ""En attendant Godot"", 1952), by the Paris-based Irish expatriate Samuel Beckett profoundly affected British drama. The Theatre of the Absurd influenced Harold Pinter (1930-2008), (The Birthday Party, 1958), whose"
"and becomes a Christian martyr in Africa. Two years later, Edward and Lavinia, now better adjusted, host another cocktail party. After its debut at the Edinburgh Festival in 1949 with Alec Guinness in the role of the unidentified guest, produced by Henry Sherek and directed by E. Martin Browne, ""The Cocktail Party"" premiered on Broadway on January 21, 1950, at the Henry Miller's Theatre and ran for 409 performances. Produced by Gilbert Miller and directed by E. Martin Browne, the production starred Guinness as the mysterious stranger. It received the 1950 Tony Award for Best Play. The play also ran"
"religious sensibility."" After this, he worked on more ""commercial"" plays for more general audiences: ""The Family Reunion"" (1939), ""The Cocktail Party"" (1949), ""The Confidential Clerk"", (1953) and ""The Elder Statesman"" (1958) (the latter three were produced by Henry Sherek and directed by E. Martin Browne). The Broadway production in New York of ""The Cocktail Party"" received the 1950 Tony Award for Best Play. Eliot wrote ""The Cocktail Party"" while he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study. Regarding his method of playwriting, Eliot explained, ""If I set out to write a play, I start by an act"
"The Party (play) The Party is a play by the British dramatist, actor and director Jane Arden (1927–82) which was first staged at the New Theatre, London on 28 May 1958. The play was directed by Charles Laughton and starred, in addition to Laughton himself, Albert Finney, Laughton's wife Elsa Lanchester, Ann Lynn, Joyce Redman, and John Welch. Following generally enthusiastic reviews ""The Party"" ran for six months at the New Theatre and has occasionally been performed in repertory since. The play was published by Samuel French Limited. ""The Party"", which is set in Kilburn, is significant for a number"
"1944 and later became its drama critic (1947–76). He was the only drama critic to recognise Harold Pinter's talent as a dramatist and wrote of ""The Birthday Party"": ""I am willing to risk whatever reputation I have as a judge of plays by saying ... that Mr Pinter, on the evidence of this work, possesses the most original, disturbing and arresting talent in theatrical London."" During his career, he was to champion many other new playwrights, especially John Osborne, Samuel Beckett and Tom Stoppard. Hobson also wrote for ""Drama"" and ""The Listener"" and was a regular member of the BBC"
"on the novel by L. P. Hartley. Films based on Pinter's adaptations of his own stage plays are: ""The Caretaker"" (1963), directed by Clive Donner; ""The Birthday Party"" (1968), directed by William Friedkin; ""The Homecoming"" (1973), directed by Peter Hall; and ""Betrayal"" (1983), directed by David Jones. Pinter also adapted other writers' novels to screenplays, including ""The Pumpkin Eater"" (1964), based on the novel by Penelope Mortimer, directed by Jack Clayton; ""The Quiller Memorandum"" (1966), from the 1965 spy novel ""The Berlin Memorandum"", by Elleston Trevor, directed by Michael Anderson; ""The Last Tycoon"" (1976), from the unfinished novel by F."
"Happy Birthday (play) Happy Birthday is a play written by Anita Loos. It opened on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre on October 31, 1946 and closed on March 13, 1948, after 564 performances. It starred Helen Hayes, for whom it was written. The story involves Addie, a mousy librarian who becomes enamoured of a handsome bank clerk, and her attempts to win him over. It was directed by Joshua Logan and featured a song written for the show, ""I Haven't Got a Worry in the World"", with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and James Livingston."
"produced at the Royal Court Theatre in London on 28 October 1958, the play starred Magee directed by Donald McWhinnie. A televised version with Magee directed by McWhinnie was later broadcast by BBC2 on 29 November 1972. Beckett's biographer Anthony Cronin wrote that ""there was a sense in which, as an actor, he had been waiting for Beckett as Beckett had been waiting for him."" In 1964, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, after Pinter, directing his own play ""The Birthday Party"", specifically requested him for the role of McCann, and stated he was the strongest in the cast. In"
"The Dinner Party (play) The Dinner Party is a one-act comedy written by Neil Simon, about marriage and divorce. This is Simon's 31st play. ""The Dinner Party"" had its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, in December 1999 and then ran at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. in June and July 2000. The play opened on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre on October 19, 2000 and closed on September 1, 2001 after 364 performances and 20 previews. Directed by John Rando, the cast featured Len Cariou (Andre Bouville), Veanne Cox (Yvonne"
"A. R. Gurney Albert Ramsdell Gurney Jr. (November 1, 1930 – June 13, 2017), as pen name A. R. Gurney (sometimes credited as Pete Gurney) was an American playwright, novelist and academic. He is known for works including ""The Dining Room"" (1982), ""Sweet Sue"" (1986/7), and ""The Cocktail Hour"" (1988), and for his Pulitzer Prize nominated play ""Love Letters"". His series of plays about upper-class WASP life in contemporary America have been called ""penetratingly witty studies of the WASP ascendancy in retreat."" Gurney was born on November 1, 1930 in Buffalo, New York to Albert Ramsdell Gurney, Sr. (1896-1977), who"
"Edward Albee Edward Franklin Albee III ( ; March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as ""The Zoo Story"" (1958), ""The Sandbox"" (1959), ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"" (1962), and ""A Delicate Balance"" (1966). Three of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and two of his other works won the Tony Award for Best Play. His works are often considered as frank examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflect a mastery and Americanization of the Theatre of the Absurd that found its peak in works by European playwrights"
"original performance space – a converted ""squash-court"" as described by Billington (67) – which was recorded by the British Library Sound Archive. The Room (play) The Room is Harold Pinter's first play, written and first produced in 1957. Considered by critics the earliest example of Pinter's ""comedy of menace"", this play has strong similarities to Pinter's second play, ""The Birthday Party"", including features considered hallmarks of Pinter's early work and of the so-called Pinteresque: dialogue that is comically familiar and yet disturbingly unfamiliar, simultaneously or alternatingly both mundane and frightening; subtle yet contradictory and ambiguous characterizations; a comic yet menacing"
"from 8 to 24 May 2008, including a gala performance and reception hosted by Harold Pinter on 19 May 2008, exactly fifty years after its London première. Like many of Pinter's other plays, very little of the expository information in ""The Birthday Party"" is verifiable; it is often contradicted by the characters and otherwise ambiguous, and, therefore, one cannot take what they say at face value. For example, in Act One, Stanley describes his career, saying ""I've played the piano all over the world,"" reduces that immediately to ""All over the country,"" and then, after a """"pause"""", undercuts both hyperbolic"
"is directed by Harry Burton, design by Simon Higlett, lighting by James Farncombe and sound by Gareth Owen. Cast rehearsals began on 5 August and the show opened on 16 September 2013, at the Wyndham's Theatre following previews from 6 September. The plays cast included Lee Evans, Sheila Hancock, Keeley Hawes, Montserrat Lombard and Karl Johnson. The play marked Evans first stage appearance since the 2007 revival of the play ""The Dumb Waiter"". Shortly before Christmas, Hawes left the play prematurely and was replaced by her understudy Rachel Marwood. Algie Packer has been in prison for seven years for committing"