Harold Pinter Box Set: The Birthday Party, No Man's Land, Mountain Language and Celebration by Harold Pinter

ISBN: 9780571232277

Faber & Faber, December 2005

448 pages, Hardcover

Published to celebrate Harold Pinter becoming Nobel Laureate in 2005, this box set contains four of Pinter's plays: The Birthday Party, No Man's Land, Mountain Language and Celebration.

The Birthday Party
Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare. The Birthday Party was first performed in 1958 and is now a modern classic, produced and studied throughout the world.

No Man's Land
‘The work of our best living playwright in its command of the language and its power to erect a coherent structure in a twilight zone of confusion and dismay.’ The Times Do Hirst and Spooner really know each other, or are they performing an elaborate charade? The ambiguity – and the comedy – intensify with the arrival of Briggs and Foster. All four inhabit a no-man’s-land between time present and a time remembered, between reality and imagination. No Man’s Land was first presented at the National Theatre at the Old Vic, London, in 1975, revived at the Almeida Theatre, London, with Harold Pinter as Hirst and revived by the National Theatre, directed by Harold Pinter, in 2001.

Mountain Language
Deals with prison life and the injustices suffered by the prisoners.

Celebration
A restaurant. Two curved banquettes. It's a celebration. Violent, wildly funny, Harold Pinter's play displays a vivid zest for life.