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The Cocktail Party (Faber Drama)

byT. S. Eliot

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Carl Tait

Funny-strange, not funny-haha

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 15, 2000

Although this play of 1950 was Eliot's first full-length comedy, he had made an earlier stab at the genre in the 1920s: "Sweeney Agonistes," a first-rate work that unfortunately remained unfinished and is now included in collections of Eliot's poetry. "Sweeney" was a jazzy, dark comedy with originality and verve; by comparison, "The Cocktail Party" is tepid indeed.
Even judged on its own merits, however, this play falls short. The first half is enjoyable enough: an unusually well-written English drawing-room comedy with serious overtones. The play begins to fall apart with the bizarre sessions of pseudo-psychotherapy in Act 2, and degenerates into overt Christian flag-waving by the final scene.
Yet the play is still well worth reading. It is more accessible that Eliot's earlier plays and was a surprise hit on Broadway when it first opened. It is still occasionally revived today; one production featured Nancy Walker in the plum role of Julia, a seemingly scatterbrained older woman. ("Salvation! The quicker picker-upper!")

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Wordy

Beer is Best.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 13, 2016

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Something of a period piece, this was chosen as the text for our play reading group. We all agreed a modern day audience would find this hard going. First produced at the Edinburgh Festival of 1949 it is a mixture of the popular psycho babble of its day, service entrances and catering men. Not my cup of tea.

giddykipper

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 11, 2013

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I needed this book for a summer school course this August I found it to be perfectly adequate for the purpose

Ashley lopez

I liked it

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 23, 2015

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I thought it was pretty radical....as in it caught my attention, the humor was great, the irony was nice, and its overall a great play if you read it with the class. :D

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Petra and Dad

Not the best of T.S Elliot but devfinately in the top 5

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 6, 2016

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Not his pest work, but still not bad either. I liked the great divorce more.

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