Invasions and Oppression -- Awkward Investments in Enclosed Spaces: The Room, The Birthday Party, The Dumb Waiter, The Hothouse -- The Stranger on the Threshold: A Slight Ache, The Caretaker -- The Company of Men and the Place of Women -- The Male Church: The Dwarfs -- Untenable Archetypes: A Night Out, Night School, The Collection, Tea Party -- Negotiations and Contracts: The Lover, The Homecoming -- Present Continuous, Past Perfect -- Contours and Shadows: Landscape, Silence, Old Times -- A Foreign Country: No Man's Land -- The Impossible Family -- Exiled: Monologue, Betrayal -- Other Places: Victoria Station, Family Voices, A Kind of Alaska, Moonlight -- Family Under Threat: One for Road, Mountain Language, Party Time, Celebration -- Politics and the Artist as Citizen -- Anger and All That: The Birthday Party, The Dumb Waiter, The Hothouse -- Art, Truth and Politics: The Nobel Lecture, Precisely, The New World Order, Press Conference, Celebration -- The Fist and the Kiss: Ashes to Ashes -- Some Concluding Remarks -- Critical and Performance Perspectives -- The Curse of Pinter / Harry Burton -- 'Who the Hell's That?': Pinter's Memory Plays of the 1970s / Chris Megson -- Revisiting Pinter's Women: One for the Road (1984), Mountain Language (1988) and Party Time (1991) / Ann C. Hall -- Pinter's Political Dramas: Staging Neoliberal Discourse and Authoritarianism / Basil Chiasson