The Birthday Party
by Harold Pinter
Directed by Francis Arnold Daley
 “The Birthday Party” is set in a seedy boarding house, run by a couple in their sixties. There is only one boarder, Stanley, a scruffy, depressed looking man in his thirties who has apparently been a professional pianist. Three figures arrive from the outside world: Lulu, Goldberg and McCann. Their motives are murky; then it becomes clear that they have come to wreak vengeance upon Stanley for a past misdemeanor. A birthday party is given for Stanley, although he vehemently denies it is his birthday. A major theme is the struggle for power which exists in all human relationships. Pinter brilliantly portrays this struggle in the most ordinary of domestic environments: he simply parts the curtains and lets the audience observe.
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