num_pages: 167
description: '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.' Observer
language: English
title: The Cocktail Party
titlecomplete: The Cocktail Party
genres: 20th Century, Literature, American, Classics, Drama, Plays, Nobel Prize, Fiction, Poetry, Theatre
ratings_count: 2408
awards: awardedAt: -631123200000
name: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
category: Best Foreign Play
publisher: Faber  Faber