by Dr Robin J . Wilson (Author)
Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare. The Birthday Party was first performed in 1958 and is now a modern classic, produced and studied throughout the world.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 184
Edition: 4
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 05 Mar 1996
ISBN 10: 0571160786
ISBN 13: 9780571160785
Book Overview: The Birthday Party is the second play by Harold Pinter, initially confounding critics in the 1950s, the play explores the fluidity of time, place and identity and quickly became a celebrated modern classic.