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Theater Trip: Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party
Date
Sat January 27th 2018, 2:00 - 5:02pm
Location
A.C.T.’s Geary Theater in San Francisco (415 Geary Street)
What: Harold Pinter’s mysterious classic The Birthday Party
Where: At the A.C.T.’s Geary Theater in San Francisco (415 Geary Street)
When: January 27th, 2018, 2pm
Who: faculty, postdocs, and grad students - Sign up on the Phil+Lit events webpage:
Here is the blurb for the play from their :
In an undisturbed English seaside town, the inhabitants of a ramshackle boarding house react to the arrival of two unsettling strangers. Where do the mysterious Goldberg and McCann come from? Who sent them? And why do they keep asking about the sole boarder, piano player Stanley?
As the party guests, including flighty Lulu and flirty landlady Meg, gather for Stanley’s birthday, the desperate pianist is forced to confront a surreal interrogation. Seething with
mystery, danger, and sudden humor, this is signature Pinter, a play of “tantalizing theatricality” (The New York Times).