Erstwhile piano player Stanley Webber lives in a rundown seaside boarding house with his landlady Meg Boles and her husband Petey. When two sinister guests, Goldberg and McCann arrive at the house they appear to have some unfinished business with Stanley and the birthday party that Meg is arranging for him does not go as planned ... or does it?
The Birthday Party is one of Pinter's best-known and most-frequently performed plays. After a hostile reception at it’s London premiere almost ended Pinter's playwriting career, it has gone on to become considered "a classic”