"The Birthday Party"
By Harold Pinter
Date: 4th - 6th March 2008
Venue: Annabel's Studio
Pinter is a challenge for many professional theatre companies. The original production of "The Birthday Party", ahead of its time, closed after six nights, but the play is now part of the theatrical canon. There are still few people who can tell us "What the play's about" though, least of all Pinter himself, who helpfully says that he thinks it's all pretty obvious.
Dauntsey's studio production of this beast was the longest play to have been staged here, in recent memory, but the quality of the performances kept the audience gripped. Tight and subtle acting from Millie Falkner-Lee, Duncan Lindsey, Kester Clarke and Angus Collins as the leads, ably supported by Tori Turner and Toby Bartlett brought these frustrating characters, with all of their human contradictions and baffling inconsistencies, to very real life.
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