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Stanley Webber is the only lodger at Meg and Petey Boles’ sleepy seaside boarding house. The unsettling arrival of enigmatic strangers Goldberg and McCann disrupts the humdrum lives of the inhabitants and their friend Lulu, and mundanity soon becomes menace when a seemingly innocent birthday party turns into a disturbing nightmare. Truth and alliances hastily shift in Pinter's brilliantly mysterious dark-comic masterpiece about the absurd terrors of the everyday.

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Stanley Webber is the only lodger at Meg and Petey Boles’ sleepy seaside boarding house. The unsettling arrival of enigmatic strangers Goldberg and McCann disrupts the humdrum lives of the inhabitants and their friend Lulu, and mundanity soon becomes menace when a seemingly innocent birthday party turns into a disturbing nightmare. Truth and alliances hastily shift in Pinter's brilliantly mysterious dark-comic masterpiece about the absurd terrors of the everyday.

Description

Stanley Webber is the only lodger at Meg and Petey Boles’ sleepy seaside boarding house. The unsettling arrival of enigmatic strangers Goldberg and McCann disrupts the humdrum lives of the inhabitants and their friend Lulu, and mundanity soon becomes menace when a seemingly innocent birthday party turns into a disturbing nightmare. Truth and alliances hastily shift in Pinter's brilliantly mysterious dark-comic masterpiece about the absurd terrors of the everyday.

Cast and creatives

THE BIRTHDAY PARTY CAST

Stanley Webber - Toby Jones

Meg - Zoë Wanamaker

Petey Boles - Peter Wright

Goldberg - Stephen Mangan

McCann - Tom Vaughan-Lawlor

Lulu - Pearl Mackie

THE BIRTHDAY PARTY CREATIVE TEAM

Directed by Ian Rickson

Design – Quay Brothers

Lighting – Hugh Vanstone

Sound – Simon Baker

Music – Stephen Warbeck

Casting – Amy Ball

Cast and creatives

THE BIRTHDAY PARTY CAST

Stanley Webber - Toby Jones

Meg - Zoë Wanamaker

Petey Boles - Peter Wright

Goldberg - Stephen Mangan

McCann - Tom Vaughan-Lawlor

Lulu - Pearl Mackie

THE BIRTHDAY PARTY CREATIVE TEAM

Directed by Ian Rickson

Design – Quay Brothers

Lighting – Hugh Vanstone

Sound – Simon Baker

Music – Stephen Warbeck

Casting – Amy Ball

Cast and creatives

THE BIRTHDAY PARTY CAST

Stanley Webber - Toby Jones

Meg - Zoë Wanamaker

Petey Boles - Peter Wright

Goldberg - Stephen Mangan

McCann - Tom Vaughan-Lawlor

Lulu - Pearl Mackie

THE BIRTHDAY PARTY CREATIVE TEAM

Directed by Ian Rickson

Design – Quay Brothers

Lighting – Hugh Vanstone

Sound – Simon Baker

Music – Stephen Warbeck

Casting – Amy Ball

Opening times

Monday to Saturday at 7.30 Wednesday and Saturday at 2.30

Opening times

Monday to Saturday at 7.30 Wednesday and Saturday at 2.30

Opening times

Monday to Saturday at 7.30 Wednesday and Saturday at 2.30

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