"Which US-born naturalised Briton wrote ""Murder In The Cathedral"", ""The Cocktail Party"" and ""The Wasteland""?"
The Cocktail Party The Cocktail Party 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. It was written while Eliot was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1948. "The Cocktail Party" was first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1949. In 1950 the play had successful runs in London and New York theaters (the Broadway production received the 1950
Murder in the Cathedral Harvard University, Eliot criticised his own plays in the second half of the lecture, explicitly the plays "Murder in the Cathedral", "The Family Reunion", and "The Cocktail Party". The lecture was published as "Poetry and Drama" and later included in Eliot's 1957 collection "On Poetry and Poets". In Series 3, episode 2 (1972), "Monty Python's Flying Circus" used the play as the basis for the weight loss product informercial, Trim-Jeans Theater: In 1982, the play was lampooned by the Canadian/US TV comedy show "SCTV." In a typically surreal SCTV sketch, the play is presented by NASA and "Buzz Aldrin's Mercury