--- product_id: 50313673 title: "Plays 1: The Birthday Party, The Room, The Dumb Waiter, A Slight Ache, The Hothouse, A Night Out, The Black and White, The Examina,Vol. 1 (Faber Contemporary Classics)" brand: "harold pinter" price: "VT12043" currency: VUV in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/50313673-plays-1-the-birthday-party-the-room-the-dumb-waiter store_origin: VU region: Vanuatu --- # Plays 1: The Birthday Party, The Room, The Dumb Waiter, A Slight Ache, The Hothouse, A Night Out, The Black and White, The Examina,Vol. 1 (Faber Contemporary Classics) **Brand:** harold pinter **Price:** VT12043 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Plays 1: The Birthday Party, The Room, The Dumb Waiter, A Slight Ache, The Hothouse, A Night Out, The Black and White, The Examina,Vol. 1 (Faber Contemporary Classics) by harold pinter - **How much does it cost?** VT12043 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/50313673-plays-1-the-birthday-party-the-room-the-dumb-waiter) ## Best For - harold pinter enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted harold pinter brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Plays 1: The Birthday Party, The Room, The Dumb Waiter, A Slight Ache, The Hothouse, A Night Out, The Black and White, The Examina,Vol. 1 (Faber Contemporary Classics) ## Images ![Plays 1: The Birthday Party, The Room, The Dumb Waiter, A Slight Ache, The Hothouse, A Night Out, The Black and White, The Examina,Vol. 1 (Faber Contemporary Classics) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61OaYBioQdL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Genius in gestation *by T***D on 18 August 2015* Early Pinter seems so assured and confident-a rare confidence and consummate skill throughout this collection preparing the way for the subliminity of his middle period encapsulated in the majestic Homecoming ! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pinter Plays *by R***R on 15 September 2011* After a brief nineteen page introduction a speech he made in 1962 about writing for the theatre, the book is exactly what it says on the cover: "Harold Pinter: Plays":"The Birthday Party""The Room""The Dumb Waiter""A Slight Ache""The Hothouse""A Night Out""The Black and White""The Examination".Pinter's plays are not to everyone's taste and really need to be seen, acted well, rather than read, although to study them at leisure, reading is obviously essential and these editions are ideal for that. Pinter's plays need to be acted well to make use of the selective pauses, "non sequiturs", over-lapping dialogue and non-verbal language. Fortunately, his plays attract good theatres and "actOrs" able to lift the script from the page.A mixture of very well-known and not so well-known plays, this edition contains a rich selection of his eerie, threatening, austere, normal, introspective worlds. On one page, forty-six pauses, one of his few directions - [Pause]. His characters always seem "involved", if that is the appropriate word, in a long series of disconnected conversations, lives which tangentially bump into one another, like bumper-cars at the fair - intimate contact but no communication."GUS - Yes, but what happens when we're not here? What do they do then?" ("The Dumb Waiter", P 135) Yes, readers, [Pause] what [Pause] then? ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A credit to the author, not the publisher *by D***E on 29 August 2011* The Birthday Party was Pinter's first major play, and after a disastrous premiere soon established itself as a modern classic. The other plays in this volume are no less rewarding. The dialogue is a stunning achievement, inconsequential on the surface, but richly suggestive underneath -- of a world that is simultaneously absurd and menacing, and of characters who do not wish to communicate, and would not be able to, even if they wished. The heredity, through Beckett and Ionesco, all the way back to Maeterlinck, is manifest. Realism and symbolism are brilliantly combined.But isn't it about time that Faber and Faber did Pinter more justice? The volume is in a rigid binding that easily cracks, the paper is of poor quality, the print is thick and nasty, and the price is exorbitant -- though fortunately Amazon and its dealers are offering the book at well below the publisher's price. But surely the time has come for Faber and Faber to issue a new Collected Pinter, in the handsome format that is surely due to one of the greatest of English dramatists. ## Frequently Bought Together - Plays 1: The Birthday Party, The Room, The Dumb Waiter, A Slight Ache, The Hothouse, A Night Out, The Black and White, The Examina,Vol. 1 (Faber Contemporary Classics) - Plays:2 The Caretaker .Night School. The Dwarfs. The Collection. The Lover. Night School . Trouble in the works. The black and white request stop. Last to go. 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