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Party Time

Short Play, Drama  /  4w, 5m

Harold Pinter

Party Time
by Harold Pinter

The streets are blockaded outside Gavin's upmarket flat, the result of a military occupation. Inside, Gavin hosts a party where the machinations between the guests are as potent and suffocating as any wider social upheaval. Contained in Pinter Plays 4.

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The streets are blockaded outside Gavin's upmarket flat, the result of a military occupation. Inside, Gavin hosts a party where the machinations between the guests are as potent and suffocating as any wider social upheaval. This play (first performed at the Almeida with Mountain Language) is sparse, but in typical Pinter style, it is bursting with confrontational contemporary themes.
M5 (20s, 40s-50) F4 (20s-30s, 70)
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting A living-room

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Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter (1930-2008) was born in London on October 10, 1930. He lived with Antonia Fraser from 1975 until his death on Christmas Eve 2008. (They were married in 1980).

After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the Central School of Speech and Drama, he worke ...

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