The Compartment (1965)

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Harold Pinter

Film screenplay

English

The Compartment is a 27-page unpublished screenplay written by Harold Pinter "for a film never made, planned as part of a triple-bill, Project I promoted by Grove Press, New York, with Samuel Beckett's Film [1965] and Eugène Ionesco's The Hard-Boiled Egg" (Baker and Ross 12). Only Beckett's Film was produced.

The script was telecast as The Basement on BBC Television on 20 February 1967 with the author in the role of Stott.

Date of Composition: 1963 - 1965   Confidence Level  

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British Library Manuscript Collections. Pinter Archive: The Basement, Add MS 88880/1/4 (Paper-based)

Type: Archival holding

External Link: https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb58-addms88880/addms88880/1/4

This manuscript collection contains the following for consultation: Draft of short story entitled 'The Compartment'; [1963] / Partly autograph draft pages of screenplay entitled 'The Compartment'; [1963] / Draft of screenplay entitled 'The Compartment', pages 1-3 missing; [1963] / Draft of screenplay entitled 'The Compartment'; [1963-1967].

Sources

'The Basement', Sharp Cut: Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process

Steven H. Gale, Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003), pp. 147-154.

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