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Name: The birthday party, and The room
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Author: Harold Pinter

📘 The birthday party, and The room by Harold Pinter

In The Birthday Party, a musician escapes to a dilapidated boarding house, where he falls victim to the shadowy, ritualized violence of two men who have followed him from his sinister past. In The Room, a derelict boarding house again becomes the scene of a visitation from the past when a blind man suddenly arrives to deliver a mysterious message.

First publish date: 1961

Authors: Harold Pinter

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