By Harold Pinter
This quantity includes Harold Pinter's first six performs: The birthday celebration, The Dumb Waiter, The Room, A moderate pain, an evening Out, The Black and White, and The Examination.
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The Birthday Party
Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding apartment via strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday celebration for Stanley becomes a nightmare.
'Mr Pinter's terrifying combination of pathos and hatred fuses unforgettably into the stuff of art.' Sunday Times
The Room and The Dumb Waiter
In those early one-act performs, Harold Pinter finds himself as already in complete keep an eye on of his particular skill to make dramatic poetry of the banalities of daily speech and the precision with which it defines character.
'Harold Pinter is the main unique author to have emerged from the "new wave" of dramatists who gave clean existence to the British theatre within the fifties and early sixties.' The Times
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Come on. Try to remember. m e g . Why, Stan? Do you know them? meg . 4$ ACT ONE St a n l e y . How do I know i f I know them until I know their names? Well. . he told me, I remember. STANLEY. Well? meg . She thinks. Gold— something. S t a n l e y . Goldsomething? m e g . Yes. Gold.. . STANLEY. Yes? m e g . Goldberg. St a n l e y . Goldberg? m e g . That’s right. That was one o f them. STANLEY slowly sits at the table, left. Do you know them? meg . S t a n l e y does n o t answ er. Stan, they won’t wake you up, I promise.
Pause. ) There are some sticks in there. (St a n l e y looks into the parcel. He takes out two drumsticks. He taps them together. ) St a n l e y St a n ley . Shall I put it round my neck? She watches him, uncertainly. He hangs the dram around his neck, taps it gently with the sticks, then marches round the table, beating it regularly. M E G , pleased, watches him. Still beating it regularly, he begins to go round the table a second time. Halfway round the beat becomes erratic, uncontrolled. m e g expresses dismay.
I have stood up. m c c a n n . Sit down again! g o l d b e r g . Once I’m up I’m up. St a n l e y . Same here. m c c a n n (moving to S t a n l e y ). You’ve made Mr Goldberg stand up. St a n l e y (his voice rising). It’ll do him good! m c c a n n . Get in that seat. g o l d b e r g . McCann. m c c a n n . Get down in that seat! g o l d b e r g (crossing to him). Webber. ) SIT d o w n . (Silence. >. He strolls casually to the chair at the table. They watch him. He stops whistling. Silence. ) St a n l e y .