"got to get things ready for the two gentlemen'—he's as dangerous as a cornered animal"" (Billington, ""Harold Pinter"" 78).asaerutheen Lulu is a woman in her twenties ""whom Stanley tries vainly to rape"" (Billington, ""Harold Pinter"" 112) during the titular birthday party at the end of Act II. According to Pinter's official biographer, Michael Billington, in ""Harold Pinter"", echoing Pinter's own retrospective view of it, ""The Birthday Party"" is ""a deeply political play about the individual's imperative need for resistance,"" yet, according to Billington, though he ""doubts whether this was conscious on Pinter's part,"" it is also ""a private, obsessive work"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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."
"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"
"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."
"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"
"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"
"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"
"by Joanne Akalaitis, from 6 to 27 March 2004. Northwest High School Theatre Department, Vernon Solomon Performing Arts Center, Northwest High School, Ft. Worth, Texas, directed by Alva Hascall, fall 2005 Germinal Stage Denver, Denver, Colorado, directed by Ed Baierlein, from 4 April to 4 May 2008. Lyric Hammersmith, London, UK, directed by David Farr, from 8 May to 24 May 2008 (Lee); ""Cast include[d]: Sian Brooke; Sheila Hancock; Lloyd Hutchinson; Justin Salinger; Alan Williams; Nicholas Woodeson"" (revival website). Melbourne Theatre Company presents 'The Birthday Party' at the Fairfax Theatre, The Arts Centre ""L'Anniversaire"" (""The Birthday Party""), adapted and directed"
"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"
"Colombe's Birthday Colombe's Birthday is a play written by Robert Browning. In 1843, he was approached by William Macready's rival Charles Kean to write a play for him. Browning took up the offer and finished the play in 1844. In March of that year, he read the finished play to Kean and his wife, Ellen Tree, and it was accepted for production. However, they could not promise its performance until 1845 and forced Browning not to publish it until then. Despite this request, the play was published five weeks later as the next number of his ""Bells and Pomegranates"" series."
"The Garden Party (play) The Garden Party () is a 1963 play by Václav Havel. The protagonist is Hugo Pludek, an average person from a middle-class Czech family. His parents are worried about his future, so they arrange an appointment for him with the influential Mr. Kalabis. Kalabis cannot show up because he is going to a garden party held by the Liquidation Office, so Hugo's parents send him there. Hugo does not find Kalabis, instead starting a sequence of absurd encounters. All of the functionaries of the Liquidation Office speak in a degenerate, ideological, content-free language, as is expected"
"Tea Party (play) Tea Party is a play written by Harold Pinter, which Pinter adapted from his own 1963 short story of the same title. As a screenplay, it was commissioned by the European Broadcasting Union, directed by Charles Jarrott, and first transmitted on BBC Television in the programme ""The Largest Theatre in the World"" on 25 March 1965 (""Complete Works: Three"" 100). It was first produced on stage in October 1968 as part of a double bill with Pinter's play ""The Basement"". ""Tea Party"" ""revolves around a family engaged in a business of sanitary engineering."" According to an account"
"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"
"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"
"The Birthday Party (novel) The Birthday Party is a biographical novel by Panos Karnezis first published in 2007. Set on a single day in late summer of 1975, it is about the rise to wealth and fame of Marco Timoleon, a 72-year-old Greek shipping magnate who for that end of August day has arranged a grand party on his private island in the Aegean to celebrate his daughter's 25th birthday. In a series of flashbacks, the omniscient narrator of the novel chronicles the businessman's life from his childhood days in İzmir to his present cosmopolitan existence and status as one"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"2018, Strathairn appeared on the third season of SyFy's ""The Expanse"" as Klaes Ashford. Strathairn is also a stage actor and has performed over 30 theatrical roles. He performed several roles in stage plays by Harold Pinter. He played Stanley in two consecutive New York Classic Stage Company (CSC) productions of Pinter's 1957 play ""The Birthday Party"", directed by Carey Perloff (since 1992 artistic director of the American Conservatory Theatre), in 1988 and 1989; the dual roles of prison Officer and Prisoner in Pinter's 1989 play ""Mountain Language"" (in a double bill with the second CSC Rep production of ""The"
"print and readily available. Dinner Party (play) Dinner Party is the only play written by the Italian author and novelist, Pier Vittorio Tondelli, originally in 1985 for the ""Riccione-Ater Theatre Prize"" and published by Bompiani in 1994 after Tondelli's death. The play features a series of conversations between the cast of characters, who assemble for an apparent innocent evening dinner on July 11, 1982. This date is significant in that it was the day that Italy won the World Championship (FIFA World Cup) in Spain (Italy beat West Germany, 3-1). However, events take an odd turn, and this innocent dinner"
"David Campton David Campton (2nd May 1924 – 9 September 2006) was a prolific British dramatist who wrote plays for the stage, radio, and cinema for thirty-five years. ""He was one of the first British dramatists to write in the style of the Theatre of the Absurd"". In performance reviews of productions of Campton's play """" and ""The Birthday Party"", by Harold Pinter, published in the short-lived British drama magazine ""Encore"", drama critic Irving Wardle borrowed the term ""comedy of menace"" from the subtitle of Campton's play, popularizing the term ""comedies of menace"". Campton addressed the matter of critics' ""pigeonholing"""
"It was filmed as a television special for ""Producers' Showcase"" with Betty Field as Addie and aired on the NBC network on June 2, 1956. Helen Hayes won the Tony Award, Best Actress in a Play and Lucinda Ballard won the Tony Award, Best Costume Design. 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"
"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"
"Holiday (play) Holiday is a 1928 play by Philip Barry which was twice adapted to film. The original play opened in New York on November 26, 1928, at the Plymouth Theatre and closed in June 1929, after 229 performances. It was directed by Arthur Hopkins, set design by Robert Edmond Jones, and costume design by Margaret Pemberton. The story follows Johnny Case, a corporate lawyer on Wall Street. He has abundant financial prospects but little social background. Before the start of the play, Julia, the eldest daughter of the Seton family, has met Johnny at Lake Placid. During the ten-day"
"York, US, directed by Alan Schneider, October 1967. (""The Birthday Party"" [Grove Press ed.] 8) The production was profiled in the William Goldman book """". City College of San Francisco production, March 1972; Stanley played by Lance Greenfield. Oregon Shakespeare Festival, directed by Andrew J. Traister. Classic Stage Company (CSC Repertory Theatre), New York City, directed by Carey Perloff; first production from 12 April to 22 May 1988; second production in a double bill with the American première of ""Mountain Language"", from 31 October to 23 December 1989). American Repertory Theater (ART), Loeb Drama Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, directed"
"to describe Pinter's early plays and some of his later work as well. As Merritt points out, among other examples of critics' usage of this and similar categories of Pinter's work, after Gussow's 1971 ""conversation"" with Pinter, ""Though he echoes Wardle's concept, Gussow seems to avoid using ""comedy of menace"" when reviewing the CSC Repertory Theatre's 1988 production of ""The Birthday Party"". While still emphasizing Pinter's 'terrors' and the 'shiver beneath the laughter,' Gussow describes the play as 'a play of intrigue, with an underlying motif of betrayal' … [and] [Bernard F.] Dukore calls the play 'a comedy (of menace"
"Dinner Party (play) Dinner Party is the only play written by the Italian author and novelist, Pier Vittorio Tondelli, originally in 1985 for the ""Riccione-Ater Theatre Prize"" and published by Bompiani in 1994 after Tondelli's death. The play features a series of conversations between the cast of characters, who assemble for an apparent innocent evening dinner on July 11, 1982. This date is significant in that it was the day that Italy won the World Championship (FIFA World Cup) in Spain (Italy beat West Germany, 3-1). However, events take an odd turn, and this innocent dinner becomes a comical, unusual"
"published in the ""New Yorker"", the play concerns ""a middle-aged self-made business man named Sisson"" (whom Pinter later renamed Disson), who engages a young secretary, marries a beautiful young second wife, and takes his new brother-in-law into his business–all in the same day""; """"A modern office in London"""". As listed in the published texts, the original cast of the BBC TV production transmitted on 25 March 1965 was: ""Tea Party"" was produced as part of a double bill with ""The Basement"" at the Eastside Playhouse in New York, directed by James Hammerstein, in October 1968, with the following cast: Scenery"