The Birthday Party (2009)

Poster by Poster Designer

by Harold Pinter

Directed by Lisa Thomas

Performances: Tue 7th – Sat 11th July 2009, Prompt Corner

Introduction

The Birthday Party is about Stanley Webber, an erstwhile piano player in his 30s, who lives in a rundown boarding house, run by Meg and Petey Boles, in an English seaside town, "probably on the south coast, not too far from London".<ref name=Naismith>Harold Pinter, Faber Critical Guides (London: Faber and Faber, 2000) 57: The setting evokes "Basingstoke and Maidenhead, southern towns ... and ... London — in both Goldberg and Stanley's reminiscences."</ref><ref name=audio>Audio interview with Harold Pinter, conducted by Rebecca Jones, bbc.co.uk/today 12 May 2008, accessed 14 May 2008.</ref> Two sinister strangers, Goldberg and McCann, who arrive purportedly on his birthday and who appear to have come looking for him, turn Stanley's apparently-innocuous birthday party organized by Meg into a nightmare.<ref name=SW/><ref name=French>The Birthday Party synopsis, in Samuel French Basic Catalog, rpt. in samuelfrench.com ("Little Theatre"), accessed 10 May 2008.</ref>

Cast

• Petey - John Lyne
• Meg - Carole Coyne
• Stanley - Simon Holland
• Goldberg - David Love
• McCann - Ian O'Brien
• Lulu - Louisa-Jane Evans

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• Set design - Dave Hollander

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