Tehran Heral Armor Theatre in Rasht, Gilan, hosts a play called “Birthday Party,” written on stage by Harold Pinter.
The play directed by Masoud Lotfi includes Maral Eghbal, Pedram Parichehe, Sogand Ramezani, Hossein Majzoub, Pouya Yeilaghi and Mohammad Mehdi Yousfizadeh.
“Birthday Party” is the first full-length play by Harold Pinter, first published in London in 1959. It is one of his most famous and most frequently performed plays.
It’s about Stanley Weber, a former piano player who lives in a ranundown boarding house run by Meg and Pete Boles in the UK’s seaside town. Two ominous strangers, Goldberg and McCann, arrive looking for him, perhaps for his birthday, turning his apparently harmless birthday party, hosted by Meg, into a nightmare.
The play is categorized as a threat comedy featuring Pinteresque elements such as ambiguous identity, time and place confusion, and dark political symbolism.
Harold Pinter (1930-2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. Nobel Prize winner Pinter was one of the most influential contemporary British playwrights with a writing career spanning over 50 years.
His most famous plays include “Birthday Party,” “The Homecoming” (1964), and “Butrayal” (1978), each adapted to the screen. He has also directed or played on radio, stage, television and film productions of himself and other works.
“Birthday Party,” which was performed every night at 8pm, will remain on stage at the Heral Armor Theatre until May 16th.
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