Night School (play)

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Night School is a play by Harold Pinter presented on television in 1960. [1] [2] It was first published in 1961. [3] The plot focuses on a man returning home from prison to find his room being rented out to a tenant. [4] As customary with most of Pinter's works, the play features many aspects of Comedy of menace.

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Original production

Associated-Rediffusion broadcast the play on 21 July 1960, in a production by Joan Kemp-Welch, for the ITV Television Playhouse series. [5]

Cast

Radio adaptation

The BBC Third Programme broadcast the play on 25 September 1966, in a production by Guy Vaesen. [6]    

Cast (in order of speaking)

References

  1. ↑ "Night School (1960)". BFI. Archived from the original on October 21, 2019.
  2. ↑ "Plays". haroldpinter.org.
  3. ↑ "Night School". haroldpinter.org.
  4. ↑ "Harold Pinter". doollee.com. Archived from the original on 2013-10-21. Retrieved 2015-01-01.
  5. ↑ Pinter, Harold (March 21, 2013). Harold Pinter Plays 2: The Caretaker; Night School; The Dwarfs; The Collection; The Lover. Faber & Faber. ISBN   9780571300785 – via Google Books.
  6. ↑ "Night School". September 25, 1966. p. 20. Archived from the original on October 22, 2019 – via BBC Genome.
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