(potent pause) ProductionsPresentsThe Birthday Partyby Harold Pinter
starring Darien Takle, Kevin Wilson, Joseph Rye, Jonathan Allen, Michael Lawrence,
Fern Sutherland
In a small shabby boarding house at a coastal resort lives a man, his wayward wife and their boarder who has been with them for a year, he is a strange chap, unkempt and in flight from we know not what. Enter an even stranger sleek London/Jewish man and his muscle bound Irish henchman. The wife accommodates them with a room and then they decide that it is time for their boarder to have a birthday party. At the party she arranges, the new guests play cruel games with the boarder, break his glasses, make a buffoon of him, and push him over the psychotic precipice. The next morning he is reduced to a gibbering idiot and meekly leaves with them. "Fascinating capacity to be menacing, ominous and evocative of some dark and threatening doom." - The New York Post "The most interesting play to be seen on Broadway" - The New York Times "Comedy of menace" - The Times "Masterly work of drama" - The London Theatre
at the Musgrove Studio, University of Auckland, Alfred Street, Auckland Central. |