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Biographical note
Harold Pinter was born in London in 1930. He lived with Antonia Fraser from 1975 and they married in 1980. In 1995 he won the David Cohen British Literature Prize, awarded for a lifetime's achievement in literature. In 1996 he was given the Laurence Olivier Award for a lifetime's achievement in theatre. In 2002 he was made a Companion of Honour for services to literature. In 2005 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and, in the same year, the Wilfred Owen Award for Poetry and the Franz Kafka Award (Prague). In 2006 he was awarded the Europe Theatre Prize and, in 2007, the highest French honour, the Légion d'honneur. He died in December 2008.'A darkly comic masterpiece.' Daily Telegraph
'Harold Pinter remains pretty much incomparable as a playwright . . . a brilliant play.' Time Out
'A great, disturbing play.' Guardian
'Mr Pinter's terrifying blend of pathos and hatred fuses unforgettably into the stuff of art.' Sunday Times
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. This edition was published to coincide with a revival at the Harold Pinter Theatre in 2018, ten years after the playwright's death, and includes the full, reset text.
'A darkly comic masterpiece.' Daily Telegraph
'Harold Pinter remains pretty much incomparable as a playwright .