Toby Jones, Stephen Mangan, Zoë Wanamaker, Pearl Mackie, Peter Wight, and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor star in the London revival of Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party, which officially opened January 18 at the Harold Pinter Theatre.
Performances began January 9. Ian Rickson directs.
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The play, according to production notes, concerns “Stanley Webber (Jones), [who] is the only lodger at Meg (Wanamaker) and Petey Boles’ (Wight) sleepy seaside boarding house. The unsettling arrival of enigmatic strangers Goldberg (Mangan) and McCann (Vaughan-Lawlor) disrupts the humdrum lives of the inhabitants and their friend Lulu (Mackie), and mundanity soon becomes menace when a seemingly innocent birthday party turns into a disturbing nightmare.”
The production is designed by the Quay Brothers, with lighting by Hugh Vanstone, sound by Simon Baker, music by Stephen Warbeck, and casting by Amy Ball.
