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Birthday Party is the play I'd give to someone if I really wanted them to be scared shitless by Harold Pinter.
There is no easy way into Pinter so it's best to just crashland into his work, This play contains everything that one may describe as "Pinteresque", Long pauses. Overwhelming dread. Near deathly tension. And, of course, humour. Dark, dark humour.

Stanley is a lodger in a house in a seaside town, He lives with the owners of the house, They are simply folk. One day two men turn up at the house and brutally interrogate Stanley until he is reduced to a childlike vegetative state.
Wait. What Yeah. But there's jokes as well,

If you are in any way familiar with my humour then you've probably already guessed that I adore this play.
Pinter is one of those writers who I feel would be hilarious at funerals, In that his work is so outthere that it almost transcends life and death and everything takes place in a near purgatorial setting.
The drum beat, the fricative verbal tennis matches, everything in this play feels like it's counting down to something.
Tick follows tock follows tick, But then Pinter does what Pinter does best and stops, Is the ending satisfying Fuck no, And that's why I love it, Ugh, Pinter you beautiful man, This play is about a shady thirtyyear old named Stanley, staying for well over a year now in a seaside boardinghouse run by Meg and Petey, a couple in their sixties.
Everything is all right until Petey announces that two men asked him for a place to spend the night.
Stan seems concerned when Meg tells him about the new arrivals, Clearly, Stan has done something wrong, At least, he is hiding away from something,

Later that morning, the two gentlemen, Goldberg and McCann, arrive, Obviously, they are here on a mission and this mission is about Stan, Meg reveals that she is preparing a birthday party for Stan, and Goldberg loves the ideaalthough when she confronts Stan about it later and reminds him that it is his birthday today to cheer him up, he denies and says that it wont be until next month.

Anyway, everything culminates in absurdity until the very end,

As for the style, its Hemingway pure and simple: the power of the unsaid, the repressed, his iceberg theory the telegraphic telegraphic.
What makes the toilet bowl in an art gallery a work of art as opposed to it being simply a lavatory for public use is that its installed by an artist instead of a plumber and that an art critic or somebody who wants to call you a philistine comes along and attaches meaning to the toilet bowl.


Well I dont go in for that kind of crap, I dont like being told what to think, Ill make up my own mind, and I dont believe The Birthday Party means anything unless you want it to mean something.


You can say its absurdist if you want because somebody wants you to think it is, and you can say its about the human condition because somebody told you it is.


But I dont want to be patronised by people telling me that I dont understand the play just because I think the play is dull.


Its ridiculous to talk of spoilers because nothing of any real consequence happens,

The plot such as it is: Stanley out of work pianist lives in a boarding house with Meg flirty housewife owner of boarding house and her husband Petey bland nothing character.
One day two blokes Goldberg and McCann arrive, The men interrogate Stanley with gibberish, reducing him almost to catalepsy, A mistaken birthday party for Stanley takes place Stanley goes ape and attacks Lulu, the neighbour at the party.
Next day, its as if nothing happened suggestions here and there re Lulu and Goldberg spending the night together except that the two interrogators take Stanley who appears to have suffered a nervous breakdown with them when they leave, ostensibly to see a doctor Monty.


You could interpret this play a hundred different ways, It doesnt matter. You could say that Stanley suffered the breakdown because he was forced by the two men to face the meaninglessness and absurdity of an existence from which he was hiding at the boarding house etc.
You could say ten different things about the meaning of the drum or the new suit, or the banal breakfast talk, and on and on.


The play could meaning anything or nothing,

Meg: What are you doing
Petey: What am I doing
Meg: Thats what I said.

Petey: Writing a play,
Meg: A play
Petey: Yes,
Meg: Oh.
Pause
Meg: What about
Petey: What about
Meg: Yes,
Petey: About the banality of human speech and domesticity, the meaningless of existence, the human condition, oh lots of heavy meaningful things.

Meg Oh.
Pause
Meg: Whats going to happen
Petey: Whats going to happen
Meg: Yes.
In the play.
Petey: Oh. The main character, already on the edge, will have his quiet domestic escape from the world disturbed by two men.

Meg: Thats nice. What then
Petey: Hell have a breakdown,
Meg: Oh.
Pause
Meg: Want your breakfast
Petey: My breakfast
Meg: Yes,
Petey: No, Im writing this play,
Meg: Oh
Pause
Meg: When will you finish it
Petey: When will I finish it
Meg: Stop bloody repeating everything I say or Ill be the one having a fucking breakdown.
Now Eat your fried bread and shut up, Just really not for me, O gee. As with Shaw amp Beckett, Pinter's first work is not without its, . . charm. The "uselessness and bleakness" angle so articulately employed in "Godot" is present here as well there is an aimlessness, a sense of character alienation on an individual basis perhaps actual just sound and fury signifying nil.
All the characters seem to be pawns in that "Classical Narrative" sort of waybut they are obvious embodiments of other things FOR SURE.
Pinter seems like the most surreal hooray! of the three amigos but I wonder how he holds up against titans like Albee or even Eugene O'Neill.


"The Room" is also eerie and disturbing, A splinterlike companion piece to "The Birthday Party," it is allegorical, undoubtedly unlike the own playwright's mighty insistence that it isn't.
read this for uni a while ago, really really unsettling, as i expected it to be, the interrogation scene will always remain in my mind, The Birthday Party, Harold Pinter

The Birthday Partyis the second fulllength play by Harold Pinter.
It is one of his bestknown 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.


تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز بیستم ماه آوریل سالمیلادی

عنوان: جشن تولد به همراه نقدی از استیون اچ گیل نویسنده: هارولد پینتر مترجم شعله آذر مشخصات نشر تهران انتشارات افراز چاپ نخستدرص شابک چاپ دوم در سالشابکموضوع داستانهای نویسندگان بریتانیایی سدهم

جشن تولد دومین نمایشنامه ی بلند هارولد پینتر و از پر اجراترین و مشهورترین نمایشنامه های ایشانست, جشن تولد نخست با واکنش تند منتقدان مواجه شد اما در آستانه ی شکست مطلق تجاری و ادبی نقد هارولد هابسون در ساندی تایمز نجاتش داد و به مرور جایگاه خود را به عنوان اثری کلاسیک در ادبیات مدرن به دست آورد. جشن تولد نمایشنامه ای ست درباره ی استنلی وبر پیانونواز پیشین که در مسافرخانه ای کوچک زندگی میکند. این مسافرخانه که در شهری ساحلی احتمالا در سواحل جنوبی و در فاصله نه چندان دور از لندن واقع شده توسط مگ و پتی بولز اداره میشود دو غریبه ی شرور که طبق قرار معلوم بهنگام جشن تولد او آمده اند و به نظر میرسد به دنبال او هستند آنها جشن تولد به ظاهر آرام و بی خطر او را که مگ برایش گرفته به کابوس تبدیل میکنند

تاریخ بهنگام رسانی هجری خورشیدی ا. شربیانی I have absolutely no idea what I just read but it was really weird and I'm weird too so I liked it.
Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann, An innocentseeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare,

The Birthday Party was first performed inand is now a modern classic.
Produced and studied throughout the world, whaaaaa

This play is brilliant, I feel a little confused but in a mindblown way, I feel a lot of pathos for Stanley, who has his comfortably peaceful although mundane life disturbed by two strangers who really put the 'strange' in 'strangers'! staying at the boardinghouse in just one day.
But Stanley himself is such an enigma to me too, it's hard to feel very personally for him.
And the two strangers what on earth is this 'job' and mission they're there to do! I like how Harold Pinter approaches the complex concept of the human condition/psyche by seriously perplexing his audience/readers along the way! Harold Pinter is a magician with dialogue and the whole dramatic pacing, it doesn't get boring at all! Gosh those snappy "interrogations" by Goldberg and McCann kept me sitting straight up!

I can't wait to start discussing this one in classes, first to answer some basic 'what is going on' questions and then to discuss the very interesting layers of meaning.
a brilliant, confusing, and shocking play,
it takes hours and hours to talk about,

sitelink bbc. co. uk/programmes/b

Recommended by Brazilliant, it has been many years since first encountering this, Wonder if this revisit with Toby Jones will tickle me into a better opinion,

Description: Stanley, an erstwhile pianist lives in a dingy seaside boarding house run by Meg and Petey.
He is comfortable there, like a surrogate son, Two sinister strangers turn up Goldberg and McCann, They claim to know him from the past, They turn Stanley's birthday party into a menacing and terrifying encounter, Franz Kafka meets Donald McGill in Pinters iconic comedy of menace,

Stanley . . Toby Jones
Goldberg . . Henry Goodman
McCann . . Stephen Rae
Meg . . Maggie Steed
Petey . . Peter Wight
Lulu . . Jaime Winstone

Director/Producer Gary Brown


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An Irishman and a Jew walk into a seaside boarding house.
And what A parable about power and persecution Or maybe it's marginalised minorities taking their revenge against seedy Albion Pinter's slippery and sly black comedy has a huge resonance for today.


Harold Pinter was one of the writers championed by the Third Programme and in the lates commissioned one of his early plays before he had his first stage hit.
Pinter himself acknowledged the role the Third had had in his own cultural education, For theth anniversary, Drama onpresents a new production of The Birthday Party, now considered a Pinter classic, but which on its first London opening only lasted a week.
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