☆☆☆☆ The Birthday Party, by Harold Pinter is a moving performance which both causes the audience to become uplifted and trigger them to reflect deeply into the compelling story of Meg, Petey and Stanley. It confuses the brain; spiralling it into thoughts bigger than you could ever imagine. Were left perplexed and confused, as Pinter wanted us to be. This led the play to bleed into the audience and stay within their bloodstream long after the curtains had closed. The story focuses on a married couple, Meg and Petey, who run a seaside boarding house, set in the 1950’s. They are ‘on the list’of the best boarding houses in Brighton, yet they only have one lodger: Stanley. However, Petey informs Meg that there are two business men coming to stay. These will be the first lodgers, besides Stanley, for what seems to be a significant amount of time. Stanley’s birthday is then acknowledged by a visit from Lulu, a local girl in her twenties, which gives the new businessmen, whom we h...
Flowing with words either spoken on stage or written on paper....