THE BIRTHDAY PARTY A play by Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter's first, full-length play which really got him noticed by critics and audiences alike!

DIRECTED BY MICHAEL CABOT

Harold Pinter was indubitably Britain's most influential playwright of the 50s and 60s.

“There’s a gentleman living here. He’s got a birthday today, and he’s forgotten all
about it. So we’re going to remind him. We’re going to give him a party.
”
A shabby boarding house in a small English seaside town. An elderly couple take
care of a solitary guest, who rarely ventures out.
The arrival of two enigmatic
strangers seems to offer a welcome distraction from their mundane existence. But when an impromptu, seemingly innocent birthday party abruptly turns in to a deadly game of cat and mouse, there are horrifying repercussions.
By turns, cryptic thriller and macabre comedy,
The Birthday Party was Harold
Pinter’s first major work and is among the most unusual and absorbing of his plays.

London Classic Theatre presents the first significant touring revival of the twenty
first century, promising to bring this ground
breaking classic to fresh and exhilarating life.