PINTER, Harold.
Other Places: Three Plays.
New York: Grove Press, Inc , 1983.
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First American Edition of Harold Pinter’s Other Places; Inscribed by Him to Director Alan Schneider
First American edition of Pinter’s late trilogy, an exceptional association copy. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Alan With love & thanks Harold.” The recipient, Alan Schneider, was Pinter’s principal American director, staging the United States premieres of his 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 to Other Places itself, which he opened on a triple bill at the Manhattan Theatre Club in April 1984, among the final productions of a celebrated career that also encompassed the American premiere of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and the Tony Award, winning original production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a closed tear to the top edge of the front panel. 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.”
Other Places: Three Plays.
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