num_pages: 190
description: “Obviously something more than a successful play, it is the practical demonstration of a patently conceived theory of dramatic form, and as such of high historical interest.” — Times Literary Supplement “Eliot has attempted here something very daring and well worth doing. He has taken the ordinary West End drawing room comedy convention – understatement, upper-class accents and all – and used it as a vehicle for utterly serious ideas.”  — The Observer “An authentic modern masterpiece” ( New York Post )—this is T.S. Eliot’s verse play about the search for meaning, in which a mysterious psychiatrist is the catalyst for a shift in a couple’s relationship after appearing at a cocktail party.
language: English
title: The Cocktail Party
titlecomplete: The Cocktail Party
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, American, Poetry, Drama, Literature, Classics, Nobel Prize, 20th Century
ratings_count: 2413
awards: awardedAt: -631123200000
name: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
category: Best Foreign Play
publisher: Ecco