The Birthday Party February 18, 2007

'The Birthday Party' is one of Harold Pinter's most highly regarded and well-known plays. Two mysterious men enter into the cozy seaside rooming house of Meg and Petey in search of their border, Stanley, a down-on-his-luck concert pianist. What is supposed to be a birthday celebration for Stanley, quickly turns into a dark nightmare after a few glasses of whiskey and a game of blindman's bluff. Chock full of Pinter's trademark mystery, wit and menace, this modern classic revels in the terrors of everyday life and reveals Pinter to have been a man of strong political convictions from the very dawn of his career.