Search results
The Birthday Party (1957) is the first full-length play by Harold Pinter, first published in London by Encore Publishing in 1959. It is one of his best-known and most frequently performed plays. [2]
The Birthday Party Summary. Stanley Webber is the only guest staying in Meg and Petey Boles ’s boarding house in a coastal resort town in England, where he has been holed up for the past year and has essentially no contact with the outside world. One morning, Meg and Petey sit at the breakfast table and make small talk.
The Birthday Party, drama in three acts by Harold Pinter, produced in 1958 and published in 1959. Pinter’s first full-length play established his trademark “comedy of menace,” in which a character is suddenly threatened by the vague horrors at large in the outside world.
A concise biography of Harold Pinter plus historical and literary context for The Birthday Party.
Nov 21, 2021 · Harold Pinter -- The Birthday Party. Topics. Harold Pinter, The Birthday Party, Radio Drama. Harold Pinter Festival The Birthday Party. Mon 2nd Feb 1970, 20:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM. with Lee Montague, Norman Rodway, John Hollis. This, the author's first full-length play, was produced in 1958 and is seen by Martin Esslin, as a complex poetic image ...
Harold Pinter (1930-2008) had an extensive career as an activist and as one of the most significant English playwrights of the 20th century. The Birthday Party, his first full-length play, was first performed at the Arts Theatre in Cambridge in 1958, under the direction of Pinter himself. The play toured to positive reviews, landing on the West ...
The Birthday Party. First presented by Michael Codron and David Hall at the Arts Theatre, Cambridge, on 28th April 1958, and subsequently at the Lyric Opera House, Hammersmith.
- www.amazon.com
- › Books
- › Arts & Photography
- › Performing Arts
Mar 4, 1991 · Two mysterious ill-boding strangers, Goldberg and McCann, show up and decide to give Stanley a birthday party when it isn't even his birthday. Lulu is a young neighbor who visits and regrets it. A toy drum becomes a disquieting prop. Pinter, child of Beckett, sets up a bizarre situation.
- Paperback
- Harold Pinter
Pinter rocks in his first well-made play, The Birthday Party (1958). Using his brief, telegram-like language, pauses, interrogation, kitchen-sink probs.... he makes us see the menace that attacks at any minute!
- www.amazon.com
- › …
- › Literature & Fiction
- › History & Criticism
Jan 4, 2018 · Two mysterious ill-boding strangers, Goldberg and McCann, show up and decide to give Stanley a birthday party when it isn't even his birthday. Lulu is a young neighbor who visits and regrets it. A toy drum becomes a disquieting prop. Pinter, child of Beckett, sets up a bizarre situation.
- Harold Pinter
