60018X1 First Printing. Grove Press, New York: 1968. 106 pages. Softcover. Very good condition. Offers two early television plays and five review sketches. A Night Out, first performed on television in 1960, is the chilling story of a young man who tries to break his ties with his nagging, destructive mother, only to discover to his horror that she is even stronger than he had dreamed. Night School is an amusing yet subtly menacing drama of interlocking subterfuge. It was first presented in 1960 and was performed in the version printed here on the BBC Third Programme in 1966. The revue sketches are five incisive portraits of ordinary people, written with Pinter's characteristic eye for terrifying trivia. In these early works Harold Pinter reveals the same agility with language and sharp, mordant humor that have characterized his later work. "[Harold Pinter is] quite possibly the best and most important playwright now alive." - Jerry Tallmer $39.75USD
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