Birthday Letters fascination with a persistent mystery surrounding the lives of the two icons. Within a short period of time the collection was awarded the Forward Poetry Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry and the Whitbread Poetry and Whitbread British Book of the Year prizes. Birthday Letters Birthday Letters, published in 1998, is a collection of poetry by English poet and children's writer Ted Hughes. Released only months before Hughes's death, the collection won multiple prestigious literary awards. This collection of eighty-eight poems is widely considered to be Hughes's most explicit response to the suicide of his estranged wife Sylvia
The Birthday Party (play) by Michel Fagadau, at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Paris, through 26 March 2009. Cast: Kansas City Actors Theatre (KCAT) presents "The Birthday Party," directed by Bruce Roach, in repertory with three Pinter one-acts, "The Collection," "The Lover" and "Night," 16 Aug. – 11 September 2011. Teatro La Plaza, Lima, Perú, presents "La fiesta de cumpleaños"(The Birthday Party) directed by Chela de Ferrari Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago directed by Austin Pendleton 24 January – 28 April 2013. The cast included Ian Barford as "Stanley", John Mahoney as "Petey", and Moira Harris as "Meg". The play was revived by Ian Rickson