LONDON Classic Theatre presents thriller and macabre comedy The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter at The Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham from Wednesday, February 17.
Directed by Michael Cabot this is the first significant touring revival of the 21st Century, promising to bring this ground-breaking classic to fresh life.
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 into a deadly game of cat and mouse, there are horrifying repercussions.
The Birthday Party was Harold Pinter’s first major work and is among the most unusual and absorbing of his plays.
Playwright, director, actor, poet and political activist, Harold Pinter was born in 1930 in East London. He wrote 29 plays including Betrayal, Old Times, The Homecoming and The Caretaker. In 2005, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died on Christmas Eve 2008.
- The Birthday Party is at The Everyman Theatre from Wednesday, February 17- Saturday, February 20.
Tickets available from the Box Office on 01242 572573 or online at everymantheatre.org.uk.
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