“Sometimes a writer has to smash the mirror – for it is on the other side of that mirror that the truth stares at us.”
– Harold Pinter, Nobel Lecture

The Birthday Party
by Harold Pinter

In 2005 playwright Harold Pinter, active as a playwright for six decades, received the Nobel Prize for Literature, a rare honor for a dramatist. The first play of our season introduced Harold Pinter to the British theatre world, causing The Sunday Times to say he had “the most original, disturbing and arresting talent in theatrical London.” Pinter’s brilliant play shows the difficulty of maintaining spiritual resistance to the demands of
political and social orthodoxy. Equal parts thriller and Kafka, The Birthday Party showcases the exquisite work of this eminent author.

“The Birthday Party still has the power to lure you into its little traps and its corrosive, deceptively direct language.”
– Chicago Sun-Times

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