"Who wrote the play ""The Birthday Party""?"
The Birthday Party (play) The Birthday Party (play) The Birthday Party (1957) is the second full-length play by Harold Pinter. It is one of his best-known and most frequently performed plays. In the setting of a rundown seaside boarding house, a little birthday party is turned into a nightmare on the unexpected arrival of two sinister strangers. 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. ("The Birthday Party" [Grove Press ed.] 8) "The Birthday Party" is about Stanley Webber, an erstwhile piano player who lives
The Birthday Party (play) awakening the audience's desire for verification and repeatedly disappointing this desire" (Brown 94). Although Stanley, just before the lights go out during the birthday party, ""begins to strangle Meg" (78), she has no memory of that the next morning, quite possibly because she had drunk too much and got tipsy (71–74); oblivious to the fact that Goldberg and McCann have removed Stanley from the house – Petey keeps that information from her when she inquires, "Is he still in bed?" by answering "Yes, he's ... still asleep"––she ends the play focusing on herself and romanticising her role in the party,