Three plays

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THREE PLAYS BY HAROLD PINTER
A Slight Ache, The Collection, and The Dwarfs
In Harold Pinter, "the comedy of menace appears at its mosyt explosively theatrical," in the words of the London Times. Since the remarkable succes^ of The Birthday Party in 1958, he has béen recognized as one of the most^rresting and original talents at worlc in the meiern British the^V: With the smash success of JThe Céretaker ön Broadway, his fäme has spread to America, and he has been called '"one of the most important playwrights of our day" (Howard Taubman, N.Y. Times) and "the best British playwrighl since John Osborne" (Jerry Tallmer, Village Voice).
- A SligJitiAche has had a -kighly «ueeessful run in the West « End of London at the Arts and Crit'erion theaters. The Dwarfs was broadcast as a radio play by the B.B.C. The Collection, an instantaneous success when it was presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company, is scheduled for early. production in New York. Thex story of the relations -between... Tovább

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THREE PLAYS BY HAROLD PINTER
A Slight Ache, The Collection, and The Dwarfs
In Harold Pinter, "the comedy of menace appears at its mosyt explosively theatrical," in the words of the London Times. Since the remarkable succes^ of The Birthday Party in 1958, he has béen recognized as one of the most^rresting and original talents at worlc in the meiern British the^V: With the smash success of JThe Céretaker ön Broadway, his fäme has spread to America, and he has been called '"one of the most important playwrights of our day" (Howard Taubman, N.Y. Times) and "the best British playwrighl since John Osborne" (Jerry Tallmer, Village Voice).
- A SligJitiAche has had a -kighly «ueeessful run in the West « End of London at the Arts and Crit'erion theaters. The Dwarfs was broadcast as a radio play by the B.B.C. The Collection, an instantaneous success when it was presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company, is scheduled for early. production in New York. Thex story of the relations -between two couples, one homosexual and the other heterosexual, it was described by Richard Watts in Iiis N.Y. Post review of the London performance as "a remark-3-bly suspenseful and menacing kind of psychological mystery drami," and its author as having "a distinguished gift for sheer, old-fashioned theatrical effectiveness.'"
Harold Pinter was born in London in 1930. An actor from the age of 19, he wrote his first play in 1957. Also available in Evergreen editions are The Birthday Party,, The Room, The Dumb Waiter, and The Caretaker, the last of'which was produced in NeW York by Roger Stevens and Frederick Brisson in the fall ,j3f. 1961, to the acclaim of critics and audiences.
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