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The Cocktail Party

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  4w, 5m

T.S. Eliot

Winner! 1950 Tony® Award, Best Play
The playwright was a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

"An authentic modern masterpiece." - New York Post

The Cocktail Party

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    4w, 5m
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  • Winner! 1950 Tony® Award, Best Play
    The playwright was a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

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This portrait of the age of anxiety in modern life searches the shadows of the soul that lie beneath the surface of human hearts and minds. In blank verse, poet and playwright T.S. Eliot portrays a society devoid of connection as "an undentified guest" appears at a cocktail party in the home of a man and wife who have fallen out of love with each other and their life of indulgent complacency. The original cast included Alec Guinness and Irene Worth.
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"An authentic modern masterpiece." - New York Post

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T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot (1888-1965) was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on September 26, 1888. He was educated at Harvard, at the Sorbonne in Paris and at Merton College, Oxford. He settled in England in 1915 and taught briefly at two schools before joining Lloyds Bank in th ...

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