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The Cocktail Party is a play by T. S. Eliot. Elements of the play are based on Alcestis by the Ancient Greek playwright Euripides. The play was the most popular of Eliot’s seven plays in his lifetime although his 1935 play Murder in the Cathedral is better remembered today. The Cocktail Party was first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1949.

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author
T. S. Eliot
character in play
Alexander MacColgie Gibbs, Celia Coplestone, Edward Chamberlayne, Julia Shuttlethwaite, Lavinia Chamberlayne, Miss Barraway, Peter Quilpe, Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly
IBDB ID
1856
original language
English language
premiere date
1949-08-22, 1950-01-21
premiere place
Edinburgh, New York City, Edinburgh Festival, Stephen Sondheim Theatre
premiere year
1949-01-01T00:00:00+02:00, 1950-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
setting of play
London England

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