The English playwright Harold Pinter (born 1930) ranks among the foremost postwar British dramatists. A master of menace, he invested his plays with an atmosphere of fear, horror, and mystery. Harold Pinter was born on October 10, 1930, the only son of a...
[This entry was updated by Stephen Grecco (Pennsylvania State University) from his entry in the Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, volume 8, pp. 315-336.] Harold Pinter, Britain's most significant playwright since Bernard Shaw, was born in...
Harold Pinter, Britain's most significant playwright since Bernard Shaw, was born in Hackney, a small working-class section just beyond the borders of London's East End. He grew up in a modest brick house on Thistlewaite Road, near Clapton Pond, in an ar...
The Birthday Party is the first full-length play by Harold Pinter. Although it is now one of Pinter's best-known plays[attribution needed], The Birthday Party was a commercial and mostly critical failure when originally performed in the West End...
The Birthday Party Capitol Hill Arts Center Through July 8. The Impertinent Dead The Birthday Party AS TIME PASSES, Harold Pinter seems more memorable as a theorist than a dramatist. He won last year's Nobel Prize for Literature and...
Byline: Peter Chianca Remember the birthday parties we had when we were kids? The ones where you got a slab of cake and an ice cream you had to excavate from the plastic cup with a wooden stick? You'll recall there were no...
Having decided on a ballerina theme for her daughter's sixth birthday party, Michelle West drove all over to find little dancers for the cake. Then she put 50 little beefeater guards around the edges. And she gave it beautiful white icing with peppermint trim.And what...
The Simon Wiesenthal Center demanded the immediate resignation of the governor of Austria's Tyrol province and other local politicians Thursday for throwing a 90th birthday party for a former Gestapo operative.The Los Angeles-based group expressed "anger and frustration" that Gov. Herwig von Staa and other...
In the following essay, Kaufman argues that the game of blindman's buff, central to The Birthday Party, provides an expressive structure for what Pinter sees as inherent human traits: a struggle for mastery and hostility.
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