The Birthday Party

Storyline

Based on Harold Pinter's enigmatic play about a boarder in a British seaside dwelling who is visited by two strangers. They torment him verbally, ask him idiotic unanswerable questions, force him to sit down and stand up, and give him a "party". Then, eventually, they take him away, a tongue-tied idiot. The trivial becomes the terrible, and with it a certain wonder, a certain pity.

Top Cast

Robert Shaw

Robert Shaw

Stanley Webber

Patrick Magee

Patrick Magee

Shamus McCann

Dandy Nichols

Dandy Nichols

Meg Bowles

Sydney Tafler

Sydney Tafler

Nat Goldberg

Moultrie Kelsall

Moultrie Kelsall

Pete Bowles

Helen Fraser

Helen Fraser

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Director

William Friedkin

Writers

Harold Pinter

Status

Released

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