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| Birthday Party | Birthday Party closed 25 June 2005
from London Ticket Web | Birthday Party closed 25 June 2005
Harold Pinter´s first full length play is widely recognized as one of the great plays of the late twentieth century. Stanley, the unemployed musician, leads a mundane but peaceful life, as the only guest living with the mumsy doting Meg, and quiet agreeable Petey. When the deeply sinister Goldberg and McCann arrive, their intentions grow progressively more ominous. Everyone becomes caught in the unruly web of Stanley´s peculiar birthday party. Filled with the extremes of comedy and menace, the ordinary and the absurd, this compelling and intriguing drama launched Pinter as one of the most significant contemporary dramatists. The cast features Eileen Atkins and Henry Goodman along with Geoffrey Hutchings, Finbar Lynch, Sinead Matthews and Paul Ritter. |
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Birthday Party
Duchess Theatre
Catherine Street London
WC2B 5LA
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closed 25 June 2005
All performances
Evenings: Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm
Matinees: Wednesday and Saturday at 3.00pm
Performance Times:
Evenings: Tuesday to Saturday at 7.30pm
Matinees: Wednesday and Saturday at 2.30pm
Performance length: 2 hours
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Front Stalls £51.00
Rear Stalls £45.00
Dress Circle £51.00
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| | What's New | Birthday Party is a Play by Harold Pinter. Directed by Lindsay Posner with designs by Peter McKintosh, lighting by Hartley T A Kemp and sound by John Leonard. |
| Theatre Review | Birthday Party Age limit: 12 years and over."...What is astonishing about The Birthday Party, now receiving a cracking revival in the West End, is that almost 50 years on, it has lost none of its power to shock, disconcert and above all entertain... Everything we understand by the word Pinteresque - except perhaps the haunting stage poetry that so enriches his mid-period - is confidently in place. Lindsay Posner's superb production captures all the familiar unease, the disconcerting pauses that sometimes grow into a deafening silence. A production without a weak link... This party, in short, is a cause for real celebration.
The Daily Telegraph
A probing, intelligent and very well-acted version of a brilliant play.
The Guardian
...one reason for seeing it is the performance of Henry Goodman, who plays the visiting villain Goldberg. Mr Goodman is tops, one of those actors whose mere arrival on the stage moves the show up a couple of gears.
The Daily Mail |
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