The Birthday Party
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 6, 2004
Closed Mar 27, 2004
Opened Mar 6, 2004
Closed Mar 27, 2004
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The Birthday Party is one of the great black comedies of the twentieth century. First produced in 1958, Harold Pinter's study of menace and mystery in a shabby English boarding house has magnificently stood the test of time, and is now ripe for revival. The visionary director JoAnne Akalaitis returns to the A.R.T. to stage this modern masterpiece.
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Harold Pinter has a knack for putting the audience in the position of a frightened child. You've just seen something scary but exactly what remains inchoate -- future grist for an analyst. Critics have been thwarted in their attempts to parse The Birthday Party ever since its 1958 debut. The author has upheld his right to ambiguity -- a smart move, because it's the sheer shapelessness of the operant threat that makes it so unsettling. Guest directing at the American Repertory Theatre, JoAnne Akalaitis brilliantly underscores both the murk and the menace of the play.
Paul Steinberg's set is itself horrific: a seaside parlor packed with several households' worth of mid-century moderne furnish[...]