{"product_id":"9780571288403-harold-pinter-plays-4","title":"Harold Pinter: Plays 4","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBetrayal; Monologue; One for the Road; Mountain Language; Family Voices; A Kind of Alaska; Victoria Station; Precisely; The New World Order; Party Time; Moonlight: Ashes to Ashes; Celebration; Umbrellas; God's District; Apart from That\u003cbr\u003eIncludes The Homecoming, Old Times, No Man's Land, four shorter plays, six revue sketches and a short story. This title contains the speech given by Pinter in 1970 on being awarded the German Shakespeare Prize.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis revised third volume of Harold Pinter's work includes \u003ci\u003eThe Homecoming\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOld Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNo Man's Land\u003c\/i\u003e, four shorter plays, six revue sketches and a short story. It also contains the speech given by Pinter in 1970 on being awarded the German Shakespeare Prize.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eThe Homecoming\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Of all Harold Pinter's major plays, \u003ci\u003eThe Homecoming\u003c\/i\u003e has the most powerful narrative line. You are fascinated, lured on, sucked into the vortex.' \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'The most intense expression of compressed violence to be found anywhere in Pinter's plays.' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eOld Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'A rare quality of high tension is evident, revealing in \u003ci\u003eOld Times\u003c\/i\u003e a beautifully controlled and expressive formality that has seldom been achieved since the plays of Racine.' \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Harold Pinter's poetic, Proustian \u003ci\u003eOld Times\u003c\/i\u003e has the inscrutability of a mysterious picture, and the tension of a good thriller.' \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eNo Man's Land\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'The work of our best living playwright in its command of the language and its power to erect a coherent structure in a twilight zone of confusion and dismay.' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31380174340193,"sku":"9780571288403","price":15.97,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_36344548_e786cef0-b3d1-4998-8670-94fc0e420e8d.jpg?v=1759430507","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780571288403-harold-pinter-plays-4","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}