Pinter admitted that the play was inspired by the opening scene of The Killers (1946).

Goldberg: Spectacle and Speculation in Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party’, The Harold Pinter Review: Collected Essays 19, 48–56. McWhinnie was responding to his reading of Something in Common which eventually ‘transmuted into’ A Slight Ache (Billington, 158).Ģ9 See, for example, my essay ‘Looking for Mr. Sharp Cut: Harold Pinter’s Screenplays and the Artistic Process (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2003), 6.ġ9 Harold Pinter, The Room, in The Short Plays of Harold Pinter (London: Faber and Faber, 2018), 10.Ģ0 Austin Quigley, The Pinter Problem (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1975), 80.Ģ1 Harold Pinter, The Homecoming in The Essential Pinter: Selections from the Work of Harold Pinter (New York: Grove Press, 2006), 186.Ģ7 Letter from Harold Pinter to Reggie Smith, Producer, 6 December 1957, BBC WAC RCONT1 Harold Pinter Scriptwriter File 1, 1957–62.Ģ8 Letter from Donald McWhinnie to John Morris, Assistant Director of Sound Broadcasting, 8 July 1958, BBC WAC RCONT1 Harold Pinter Scriptwriter File 1, 1957–62. This rating was also unusually high for Pinter on radio: see Amanda Wrigley, ‘Pinter on Air’, Pinter at the Pinter (London: Jamie Lloyd Theatre Co., 2019).ġ5 Steven Gale concurs saying that ‘Pinter’s attraction to media other than drama is reflected in his stage works’. 1 (1987), 31–39.Ĥ Harold Pinter, Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics (New York: Grove, 1998), 19.ĥ Martin Esslin, Pinter the Playwright (New York: Methuen, 1984), 52.Ħ Dominic Pettman, Sonic Intimacy (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017), 5.ĩ Harold Pinter quoted in Billington, Life and Work, 8.ġ0 Ronald Knowles, Understanding Harold Pinter (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1995), 4.ġ1 See Richard Hewett’s essay in this special issue for a discussion of Pinter’s acting roles.ġ2 Letter from Barbara Bray, Script Editor, to Emanuel Wax, 25 July 1957, BBC WAC RCONT1 Harold Pinter Scriptwriter File 1, 1957–62.ġ3 Billington, 111. See, too, Katherine Worth’s ‘Pinter’s Scenic Imagery,’ The Pinter Review, 1, no. ‘Pinteresque’.ģ Harold Pinter, quoted in Ian Smith, Pinter in the Theatre (London: Nick Hern Books, 2005), 47. 1 Michael Billington, The Life and Work of Harold Pinter (London: Faber and Faber, 1996), 111.Ģ Oxford English Dictionary, s.v.

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