Tea Party (play)

Tea Party is a play written by Harold Pinter, which Pinter adapted from his own 1963 short story of the same title.Plays: Three and Complete Works: Three 241–47. Subsequent references to these editions and to Pinter's official Website appear in parentheses in the text.The short story "Tea Party" is also published in Various Voices 94–98. As a screenplay, it was commissioned by the European Broadcasting Union, directed by Charles Jarrott, and first transmitted on BBC Television in the programme The Largest Theatre in the World on 25 March 1965 (Complete Works: Three 100).See also: Pinter, The Lover, Tea Party, The Basement 42. It was first produced on stage in October 1968 as part of a double bill with Pinter's play The Basement.Quoted in for Tea Party, in "Harold Pinter (1930–2008)".

Synopsis

Tea Party "revolves around a family engaged in a business of sanitary engineering."Back cover, The Lover, Tea Party, The Basement. According to an account published in the New Yorker, the play concerns "a middle-aged self-made business man named Sisson" (whom Pinter later renamed Disson), who engages a young secretary, marries a beautiful young second wife, and takes his new brother-in-law into his business–all in the same...
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