Other Places: Three Plays.
PINTER, Harold.
Other Places: Three Plays.
First Edition of Harold Pinter’s Other Places; Inscribed by Him to Director Alan Schneider, With a Typed Poem by Pinter Laid In
London: Methuen, 1982.
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First edition of Pinter’s late trilogy, an exceptional association copy uniting the playwright with his principal American director. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To my old friend Alan With love Harold,” with a typed poem by Pinter laid in. The recipient, Alan Schneider, staged the United States premieres of Pinter’s plays across more than two decades, from the 1962 off-Broadway double bill of The Dumb Waiter and The Collection through the Broadway premiere of The Birthday Party in 1967 to Other Places itself, which he opened on a triple bill at the Manhattan Theatre Club in April 1984. Schneider was the great American champion of the postwar European stage — he directed the American premiere of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot in 1956 and remained Beckett’s preferred American director, and his staging of Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? won the 1963 Tony Award for Best Direction. Other Places stood among the final productions of his celebrated career: he died in London the following month. Fine in a fine dust jacket. An exceptional association copy.
Other Places, Harold Pinter’s trilogy of one-act plays — A Kind of Alaska, Victoria Station, and Family Voices — premiered at the National Theatre in London in October 1982 under the direction of Peter Hall. A Kind of Alaska, widely regarded as among the finest of Pinter’s late works, was inspired by Oliver Sacks’s Awakenings and its accounts of patients revived from decades of encephalitic sleep. The American premiere followed at the Manhattan Theatre Club in 1984. Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005, the Swedish Academy observing that he “uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression’s closed rooms.”
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