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1960 television play by Harold Pinter

Night School is a play by Harold Pinter presented on television in 1960. It was first published in 1961. The plot focuses on a man returning home from prison to find his room being rented out to a tenant. As customary with most of Pinter's works, the play features many aspects of Comedy of menace.

Original production

Associated-Rediffusion broadcast the play on 21 July 1960, in a production by Joan Kemp-Welch, for the ITV Television Playhouse series.

Cast

Sally - Vivien Merchant
Walter - Milo O'Shea
Solto - Martin Miller
Under Manager - Nicholas Stuart
Manager - Bernard Spear
Annie - Jane Eccles
Milly - Iris Vandeleur
Hostess - Mavis Traill
Cast member - Barbara Ferris
Cast member- Carol Austin

Radio adaptation

The BBC Third Programme broadcast the play on 25 September 1966, in a production by Guy Vaesen.

Cast (in order of speaking)

Annie - Mary O'Farrell
Walter - John Hollis
Milly - Sylvia Coleridge
Sally - Prunella Scales
Solto - Sydney Tafler
Tully - Preston Lockwood
Barbara - Barbara Mitchell
Mavis - Carol Marsh

References

"Night School (1960)". BFI. Archived from the original on October 21, 2019.
"Plays". haroldpinter.org.
"Night School". haroldpinter.org.
"Harold Pinter". doollee.com.
Pinter, Harold (March 21, 2013). Harold Pinter Plays 2: The Caretaker; Night School; The Dwarfs; The Collection; The Lover. Faber & Faber. ISBN 9780571300785 – via Google Books.
"Night School". September 25, 1966. p. 20 – via BBC Genome.

External links

Night School at IMDb

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Plays	The Room (1957) The Birthday Party (1957) The Dumb Waiter (1957) A Slight Ache (1958) The Hothouse (1958) The Caretaker (1959) A Night Out (1959) Night School (1960) The Dwarfs (1960) The Collection (1961) The Lover (1962) Tea Party (1964) The Homecoming (1964) The Basement (1966) Landscape (1967) Silence (1968) Old Times (1970) Monologue (1972) No Man's Land (1974) Betrayal (1978) Family Voices (1980) A Kind of Alaska (1982) Victoria Station (1982) One for the Road (1984) Mountain Language (1988) The New World Order (1991) Party Time (1991) Moonlight (1993) Ashes to Ashes (1996) Celebration (1999) Remembrance of Things Past (2000)
Dramatic sketches	The Black and White (1959) Trouble in the Works (1959) The Last to Go (1959) Request Stop (1959) Special Offer (1959) That's Your Trouble (1959) That's All (1959) Interview (1959) Applicant (1959) Dialogue for Three (1959) Umbrellas (1960) Night (1969) Precisely (1983) God's District (1997) Press Conference (2002) Apart From That (2006) The Pres and an Officer (2018)
Screenplays	The Caretaker (1963) The Servant (1963) The Pumpkin Eater (1964) The Quiller Memorandum (1966) Accident (1967) The Birthday Party (1968) The Homecoming (1969) Langrishe, Go Down (1970) The Go-Between (1971) The Proust Screenplay (1972) The Last Tycoon (1976) The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) Victory (1982) Betrayal (1983) Turtle Diary (1984) The Heat of the Day (1988) Reunion (1989) The Comfort of Strangers (1990) The Handmaid's Tale (1990) Party Time (1992) The Trial (1993) The Dreaming Child (1997) The Tragedy of King Lear (2000) Sleuth (2007)
Related articles	Works Bibliography Characteristics Honours and awards Relationship with academia The Harold Pinter Archive in the British Library Harold Pinter and politics Art, Truth and Politics Pinter's People

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