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We can also say that over his work and over his person hovers a sort of leonine, predatory spirit which is all the more powerful for being held under in a rigid discipline of form, or in a black suit. The essence of his singular appeal is that you sit down to every play he writes in certain expectation of the unexpected. In sum, this tribute from one writer to another: you never know what the hell's coming next." Complete Works, Volume I. Harold Pinter has long been acknowledged as one of the most influential playwrights in contemporary theatre; his arresting and original works have left a lasting imprint on the development of the stage and screen while delighting audiences around the world. This, the first of four volumes, contains his first five plays, including The Birthday Party (1958), his first full-length drama; as well as two short stories—"The Black and White" and "The Examination"—both written before Pinter turned to the theatre. Pinter's exacting and complex use of language and the features that mark his "comedies of menace" are clearly realized in these plays and stories. His speech "Writing for the Theatre" introduces the volume and establishes the context for those early years. The Birthday Party The Room The Dumb Waiter A Slight Ache A Night Out "The Black and White" "The Examination" "Writing for the Theatre" Об авторе. English playwright, poet, and political activist Harold Pinter was born on October 10, 1930, in London's East End. From childhood he was interested in literature and acting. He studied at both the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and the Central School of Speech and Drama. Pinter was a Nobel Prize-winning English playwright and screenwriter. 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 to film. Pinter published his first poems in 1950. He worked as a bit-part actor in a BBC Radio program and also toured with a Shakespearean troupe. Pinter has written over 30 plays, achieving great success internationally. He has also directed several of his dramas. Pinter was married to actress Vivien Merchant from 1956 to 1980, before wedding biographer Lady Antonia Fraser. From his first marriage he has a son who is a writer and musician. Pinter has won numerous prestigious literary prizes in poetry and theatre. He was awarded the Hermann Kesten Medallion for outstanding commitment on behalf of persecuted and imprisoned writers. He has been granted honorary degrees at universities in England, Scotland, the United States, Bulgaria, Ireland, Italy, and Greece. In 2005, Pinter received the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died from cancer on December 24, 2008 at the age of 78. Complete Works: One by Harold Pinter. An Evergreen Book. This collection copyright © 1976 by FPinter Limited. The Birthday Party copyright © by 1959, 1960, 1965 by FPinter Limited. The Room, The Dumb Waiter copyright © 1959, 1960 by FPinter Limited. A Slight Ache, A Night Out copyright © 1961, 1966, 1968 by FPinter Limited. “The Black and White” copyright © 1966 by FPinter Limited. “The Examination” copyright © 1963 by FPinter Limited. “Writing for Theater” copyright © 1962, 1964 by FPinter Limited. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. Scanning, uploading, and electronic distribution of this book or the facilitation of such without the permission of the publisher is prohibited. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated. Any member of educational institutions wishing to photocopy part or all of the work for classroom use, or anthology, should send inquiries to Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 154 West 14th Street, New York, NY 10011 or [email protected] CAUTION: Professionals and amateurs are hereby warned that these plays are subject to a royalty. It is fully protected under the copyright laws of the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and all British Commonwealth countries, and all countries covered by the International Copyright Union, the Pan-American Copyright Convention, and the Universal Copyright Convention. All rights, including professional, amateur, motion picture, recitation, public reading, radio broadcasting, television, video or sound taping, all other forms of mechanical or electronic reproduction, such as information storage and retrieval systems and photocopying, and rights of translation into foreign languages, are strictly reserved. First-class professional, stock, and amateur applications for permission to perform them, and those other rights stated above, for all plays in this volume, must be made in advance to the author’s sole agent: Judy Daish Associates Ltd., 2 St. Charles Place, London W10 6EG, England. Stock and amateur application to perform The Birthday Party must be made in advance, before rehearsals begin, with Samuel French, Inc. 45 West 25th Street, New York, NY 10010. For all other plays in the collection, inquiries should be directed to Dramatists Play Service, 440 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016. an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. 154 West 14th Street. New York, NY 10011. Distributed by Publishers Group West. Introduction: Writing for the Theatre. THE BIRTHDAY PARTY. THE DUMB WAITER. The Black and White (short story) The Examination (short story) Harold Pinter: A Chronology. Year of writing First performance. The Black and White. The Birthday Party. The Dumb Waiter. January 21, 1960. Revue sketches—Trouble in the Works; The Black and White. Request Stop; Last to Go; Special Offer. September 23, 1959. That's Your Trouble; That's All; Applicant; Interview; Dialogue for Three. December 2, 1960. February 28, 1967. July 2, 1969 > 1969. November 15, 1978. January 22, 1981. Victoria Station A Kind of Alaska. performed with Family Voices as a trilogy titled Other Places in 1982. One for the Road. October 20, 1988. Writing for the Theatre. A speech made by Harold Pinter at the National Student Drama Festival in Bristol in 1962. I'm not a theorist. I'm not an authoritative or reliable commentator on the dramatic scene, the social scene, any scene. I write plays, when I can manage it, and that's all. That's the sum of it. So I'm speaking with some reluctance, knowing that there are at least twenty-four possible aspects of any single statement, depending on where you're standing at the time or on what the weather's like. A categorical statement, I find, will never stay where it is and be finite. It will immediately be subject to modification by the other twenty-three possibilities of it. No statement I make, therefore, should be interpreted as final and definitive. One or two of them may sound final and definitive, they may even be almost final and definitive, but I won't regard them as such tomorrow, and I wouldn't like you to do so today. I've had two full-length plays produced in London. The first ran a week and the second ran a year. Of course, there are differences between the two plays. In The Birthday Party I employed a certain amount of dashes in the text, between phrases. In The Caretaker I cut out the dashes and used dots instead. So that instead of, say: ‘Look, dash, who, dash, I, dash, dash, dash,’ the text would read: ‘Look, dot, dot, dot, who, dot, dot, dot, I, dot, dot, dot, dot.’ So it's possible to deduce from this that dots are more popular than dashes and that's why The Caretaker had a longer run than The Birthday Party.
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