| Front | the Birthday Party |
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| Back | the first of Harold Pinter 's plays to attract attention 1957 in a seaside boarding house belonging to a deck-chair attendant and his eccentric wife, Meg, the only boarder is Stanley, who claims to have been a concert pianist and who suffers from the persecution mania of a neurotic refugee when two new boarders , a Jew called Goldberg and an Irishman called McCann, come to lodge at the house, Stanley is terrified. at the birthday party , given in his honor, he is driven into hysteria during a game of blind man 's buff. the next day, Goldberg and McCann remove him to an unknown destination The Birthday Party (1957) is the second full-length play by Harold Pinter, first published in London by Encore Publishing in 1959.[1] It is one of his best-known and most frequently performed plays.[2] In the setting of a rundown seaside boarding house, a little birthday party is turned into a nightmare when two sinister strangers arrive unexpectedly. The play has been classified as a comedy of menace, characterised by Pinteresque elements such as ambiguous identity, confusions of time and place, and dark political symbolism. Pinter began writing The Birthday Party in the summer of 1957 while touring in Doctor in the House. He later said: "I remember writing the big interrogation scene in a dressing room in Leicester." [3] |
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