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Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 4m
Harold Pinter
In Pinter's classic comedy of menace, a small birthday party in a rundown seaside boarding house becomes a nightmare when two sinister strangers arrive unexpectedly.
Meg and Petey live in a small seaside boarding house with their boarder, a strange chap named Stanley. Two strangers, a sleek man named Goldberg and his musclebound henchman McCann, arrive unexpectedly. Meg naively accommodates them with a room, and decides to arrange a birthday party for Stanley. At the party, Goldberg and McCann play cruel games with the boarder, breaking his glasses, making a buffoon of him and ultimately pushing him over the psychotic precipice. The next morning, Stanley, reduced to a gibbering idiot, meekly leaves with the two men.
The living room of a house in a seaside town in England.
“Fascinating... menacing, ominous and evocative of some dark and threatening doom.” – New York Post
“The most interesting play to be seen on Broadway.” – The New York Times
ON BREAKING CHARACTER
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Harold Pinter (1930-2008) was born in London on October 10, 1930. He lived with Antonia Fraser from 1975 until his death on Christmas Eve 2008. (They were married in 1980).
After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the Central School of Speech and Drama, he worke ...