Various Voices
“There is no playwright his equal. He is the natural descendant of James Joyce, by way of Samuel Beckett. Pinter works the language as…
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The Proust Screenplay
A unique collaboration between two extraordinary writers united across more than half a century and two different cultures by a special concern for time…
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“Party Time‘s last loaded encounter is better than anything Pinter has written in years.” —The Times (London)…
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Named as 1984’s Play of the Year by Drama magazine, Harold Pinter’s One for the Road is a chilling study of power and powerlessness.
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Like Pinter’s earlier plays, Old Times deals with bare essentials. There are only three characters—a man named Deeley, his wife, Kate, and Anna, a…
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“No Man’s Land remains palpably the work of our best living playwright in its command of language and its power to erect a coherent…
keep readingNinety-Nine Poems in Translation
“Paging through the poems becomes a delightful chance to catch . . . The cacophony of voices, the range of styles, cultures, and time…
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“[Mountain Language] effortlessly encapsulates the world. . . . If to want, to have, to use or abuse power over others is the essence…
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“There is no playwright his equal. He is the natural descendant of James Joyce, by way of Samuel Beckett. Pinter works the language as…
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“The playwright has an unfailing ear for institutionalized doublespeak, and The Hothouse is full of rapid-fire bits that sound like old vaudeville routines as…
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