1968 Landscape and Mac

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First Edition, Limited Edition

The first and limited editions of Landscape (978 of 1000) and Mac (885 of 1000), in their original cloth bindings. Mac is inscribed to the front free end paper by Emanuel (Jimmy) Wax, dated 1982. Facsimile of author's signature to the rear of both volumes. Harold Pinter (1930-2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists and won the Nobel Prize in 2005. Landscape is a one-act play, first broadcast on radio in 1968 and first performed on stage in 1969. The play shows the difficulties of communication between two people in a marriage. The dialogue resembles two independent monologues. Landscape was first presented on radio by the BBC on 25th April 1968, directed by Guy Vaesen with Peggy Ashcroft as Beth and Eric Porter as Duff. Mac is Pinter's non-fiction memoir about his brief touring as an actor in Anew McMaster's Irish theatre repertory company, and has a biographical note to the rear of the volume.