The Birthday Party is the first full-length play by Harold Pinter, first performed in 1958 and first published in 1959. It is one of Pinter's best-known and most frequently performed plays.
Cover of first edition (London: Encore Publishing, 1959)
Harold Pinter was an English playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a wr
The Birthday Party (play)
…The Birthday Party is the first full-length play by Harold Pinter, first performed in 1958 and first published in 1959. It is one of Pinter's best-known and most frequently performed plays. In the setting of a rundown…
Pinter in 1962
Pinter's house in Worthing, 1962–64
Pinter in 2005
No Man's Land revival at Duke of York's Theatre, 30 December 2008