This play was first performed in 1960. Harold Pinter specializes in the tragicomedy of the breakdown of communication, broadly in the tradition of the theatre of the absurds and this is demonstrated in both The Caretaker and The Birthday Party .

Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding-house by two strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare.

When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit London and his family, he finds himself prey to old conflicts. But now it is Ruth who becomes the focus of the family's struggle for supremacy. The playwright's other works include The Birthday Party and Old Times .

Aiming to lay bare the act of blatant state terrorism that is the invasion and occupation of Iraq, this book seeks to reveal the extraordinary tapestry of lies, distortions and gross media manipulation that underpin it. It looks at how public opinion is wilfully ignored and democracy used as a figleaf for the furthering of colonial ambitions.

Part of a collection of Harold Pinter's works, this is a comedy of sexual manners in which Pinter captures the psyche's sly manoeuvres for self-respect with sardonic forgiveness. Written in 1978 by the author of The Caretaker , The Lover , The Homecoming and The Birthday Party .

Addresses some of the urgent questions which have been posed by the war in Afghanistan.

A collection of Harold Pinter's prose, poems and political writing to span his career. It includes an interview in which he reflects on his time as an evacuee in Cornwall during the Second World War, as well as his Nobel Speech.

Although best known for his plays, Harold Pinter has also written an extensive and wide-ranging body of other work since 1948; prose, prose fiction, poetry and political writings. In this anthology the playwright presents a selection that traces his own literary development.

A restaurant. Two curved banquettes. It's a celebration. Celebration is Pinter's new play which displays a vivid zest for life. In The Room , Pinter's first play, he reveals himself in full control of his ability to make dramatic poetry of the banalities of everyday speech.

Press Conference is a short sketch in an evening of Pinter pieces, which was produced at the National Theatre in February 2002.

This fourth collection of Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter's work includes the plays BETRAYAL, 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, and CELEBRATION.

A collection of five Pinter plays which also contains five revue sketches written during the same period.