Harold Pinter's Party Time

<p>‘All you have do is shut up and enjoy the hospitality.’ Terry</p><p>Harold Pinter’s <i>Party Time<b> </b></i>(1991) is an extraordinary distillation of the playwright’s key concerns. Pulsing with political anger it marks a stepping stone on Pinter’s path from iconic dramatist of existential unease to Nobel Prize-winning poet of human rights. </p><p>G. D. White situates this underrated play within a recognisably ‘Pinteresque’ landscape of ambiguous brittle social drama while also recognising its particularity: <i>Party Time </i>is haunted by Augusto Pinochet’s right-wing coup against Salvador Allende’s democratically elected government in Chile. This book considers the play<i> </i>and its confederate works in the dual context of Pinter’s literary career and burgeoning international concern with human rights and freedom of expression.</p><p>White contrasts Pinter’s uneasy relationship with the UK’s powerful elite with the worldwide acclaim garnered by his dramatic eviscerations of power.</p>