Celebration
by Harold Pinter

Name: Celebration
Brand: Harold Pinter
SKU: 9780573628283
Rating: 3.12 (106 reviews)

Celebration Book Cover — Celebration Cover

Highlights

Medium Cast

Female

Male

One Act 40 mins Present Day Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes American Comedy

Synopsis

Book by Harold Pinter

Press Reviews

"In Pinter's plays, words are probes launched into the world, variously, to mask, to mystify, to mock or to murder. He sets out his entire smorgasbord of gorgeous verbal moves in Celebration, which like all good festive occasions, he keeps light and lively."
— The New Yorker

"Hugely entertaining. The riotous one liners fall far faster and funnier than ever. Pinter captures the vacuous idiocies of everyday dialogue with dazzling skill."
— Mail on Sunday

"One of the finest comic writers in the language. [The] dialogue has a sense of ebb and flow, of bursting out and retreating in defeat, of self abasement and evasion, of attack and tactical withdrawal. The result is that the most prosaic passages can have a musical quality; harsh minor keys, perversely accurate rhythms, heady crescendos that take you headlong into pauses pregnant with knowledge."
— London Sunday Times

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Julie a woman in her forties	female	—	a woman in her forties
Mat	—	—	—
Prue a woman in her forties	female	—	a woman in her forties
Russell a man in his thirties	male	—	a man in his thirties
Suki a woman of twenty-eight	female	—	a woman of twenty-eight
Richard a man in his fifties	male	—	a man in his fifties
Waiter a man of twenty-five	—	—	a man of twenty-five
Sonia a woman in her thirties	female	—	a woman in her thirties
Lambert a man in his forties	male	—	a man in his forties