The Birthday Party at Geffen Playhouse

Dates: (2/4/2014 - 3/16/2014 )

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Geffen Playhouse

10886 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024
Los Angeles,CA

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Phone: 3102085454

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Gil Cates Theater:

Harold Pinter; dir: William Friedkin.

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Harold Pinter
Wayne Horvitz

The Birthday Party was the first full-length offering from British playwright Harold Pinter, who is now widely regarded as the theatre’s master of enigma and menace. The play takes us to a godforsaken seaside guest house run by Meg and her husband Petey. The only guest is Stanley, a former pianist with a shady past, upon whom Meg dotes. Into this uneasy family come two additional guests, a pair of suspiciously underworldly types who seem to have some unfinished business with Stanley. The style of The Birthday Party swings from the broadly comic to the deeply unnerving, with a nod to the absurd along the way. It’s easy to see why The Sunday Times critic Harold Hobson, responding to the first production of The Birthday Party, wrote that “Pinter, on the evidence of this work, possesses the most original, disturbing and arresting talent in theatrical London.” Union Station’s H&R Block City Stage.

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