The Birthday Party
Auteur: Harold Pinter
Nombre de pages: 97 pages
ISBN: 0413396401, 9780413396402
Edition: Eyre Methuen
Date de publication: Eyre Methuen
Description: A three-act play, set in a seedy English boarding house by the sea. Stanley Webber, pampered by a maternal landlady, finds his comfortable life interrupted by the arrival of two sinister men, Goldberg and McCann, agents of a person or persons unknown, who ostensibly are looking for rooms. It becomes clear, however, that their mission is to intimidate Stanley. So successfully do they wield their mysterious authority, hurling questions and accusations at Stanley, that in the end they lead him, muted and broken, to a waiting car outside; but they, too, seem to be infected by the same fear and uncertainty they imposed on Stanley.