Pinter's key works
The Birthday Party (1957): Pinter's first full-length play closed within a week on the West End after hostile reviews, but the political roots of its Kafkaesque story of a man threatened by strangers for unknown reasons have become more obvious over time.
The Caretaker (1960): Pinter's breakthrough to critical and popular success, this displayed his characteristic grasp of the simultaneously comic and sinister undercurrents of banal speech.
The Homecoming (1965): The story of an estranged son who brings his new wife home to meet his family, this is at once Pinter's most accessible and most enigmatic play.
No Man's Land (1975): A richly haunting examination of the way language becomes not a means of communication but a means of survival.
Ashes to Ashes (1996): A key Pinter play in which the political and the personal become intertwined as a woman's private disturbances are gradually inhabited by images of the Holocaust.