Since his first full-length play, The Birthday Party (1958), and continuing with The Homecoming (1965), Pinter has trained a sharp eye on the strange dynamics of modern family life. In Celebration, he continues to examine the darker places of relationships. Celebration is an acerbic portrait of a sated culture choking on its own material success. Startling, full of black humor and wicked satire, Celebration displays a vivid zest for life. Also included in this volume is Pinter’s classic play The Room. Both plays are invested with the elements that make Pinter’s work unique: the disturbingly familiar dialogue, subtle characterization, and abrupt mood and power shifts among characters, which can be by turns terrifying, moving, and wildly funny.

Format: Paperback
Published: USA, 2000
Publisher: Grove
Pages: 128
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9780802137081
ISBN 10: 0802137083