Celebration and the Room: Two Plays by Harold Pinter (English) Paperback Book

Description: Celebration and the Room: Two Plays by Harold Pinter Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description When I was fourteen I happened to meet the celebrated drama critic, Jack Kroll. We were in his New York office at Newsweek when he asked me what I wanted to do with my life. I told him I'd like to write plays, if I could."Would you now?" He handed me a Grove Press edition of Pinter: Plays One and said, "You'd better have this then".In 1995 my first play was put on at the National TheatreOne night, I was knocking around the lighting box just before curtain up, "Anyone in?"The Deputy Stage Manager, said, "Harold Pinter"."Yeah, yeah"."No, really".A few days later I received a little note from him, congratulating me on the play. I kept the note in my breast pocket for a month.In May of 1999 we had lunch. Harold wore a black shirt and drank white wine. In fact, we drank a fair amount of white wine together. I'd put it about, via our mutual agent, Judy Daish, that I'd be pretty keen to direct The Caretaker and word came back that Harold would not be averse. So we discussed the play in an adult fashion, director to play-wright. I wondered when someone was going to tap me on the shoulder and wake me from this fantasy.A month or two later I called Harold to discuss some bit of production business. He came to the phone, full of beans."Hallo, Harold. You sound well".He told me that he was "well" and that he was writing a new play. He spoke like a man who had never written a play before, thrilled and delighted that the words were flowing. I was stabbing around in the dark with a new one. Harold asked after it delicately; he treated me like a fellow writer, as if all writers are equals, all prone to the same problems.When I directed my second play, Closer, onBroadway, Jack Kroll came to interview me for Newsweek magazine. We chatted away in the lobby of the Algonquin Hotel where I was staying. I told him he'd given me a book some twenty years ago and that it had been more than useful. He was delighted. He spoke at some length and with great admiration for and about Harold's work.Jack Kroll died this summer.It was an honour to have met him.The book he had given me was upstairs in my hotel room.Why would I ever part with it?It's here on my desk, as I write. Publisher Description 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 Pinters classic play The Room. Both plays are invested with the elements that make Pinters 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 Biography Pinter won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005. Details ISBN 0802137083 ISBN-13 9780802137081 Title Celebration and the Room: Two Plays Author Harold Pinter Format Paperback Year 2000 Pages 176 Publisher Grove Press GE_Item_ID:137877468; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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