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The Birthday Party | Stage Door Society

The Birthday Party

Harold Pinter

Theatre·Premiered 1958·Libretto by Harold Pinter·pinter · menace · absurdist

Synopsis

Two sinister strangers arrive at a seaside boarding house to interrogate and abduct its only lodger in Pinter's menacing masterclass in theatrical ambiguity.

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