Other Places: Three Plays.
PINTER, Harold.
Other Places: Three Plays.
First Edition in Wrappers of Harold Pinter’s Other Places; Inscribed by Him to Alan Schneider, Director of the American Premiere
London: Methuen, 1982.
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First edition in wrappers of Pinter’s late trilogy, published simultaneously with the hardback in 1982. Octavo, original printed wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Alan All my love Harold,” with Alan Schneider’s ownership inscription, “Alan Schneider May 1983 London.” Schneider acquired the book in London the year before he directed the American premiere of Other Places, which opened on a triple bill at the Manhattan Theatre Club in April 1984. Schneider was among the foremost American directors of his generation and the great champion of the postwar stage in the United States: he directed the American premiere of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot in 1956 and remained Beckett’s preferred American director, staged the United States premieres of Pinter’s plays from the 1962 off-Broadway double bill of The Dumb Waiter and The Collection through the Broadway premiere of The Birthday Party in 1967, and won the 1963 Tony Award for Best Direction for the original production of Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In very good condition with some toning and light wear to the wrappers. A copy uniting the playwright and the director of the American premiere.
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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