All you have do is shut up and enjoy the hospitality. Terry

Harold Pinter s Party Time (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.

G. D. White situates this underrated play within a recognisably Pinteresque landscape of ambiguous, brittle social drama while also recognising its particularity: Party Time is haunted by Augusto Pinochet s...