'Two people in a room- I am dealing a great deal of the time with this image of two people in a room. The curtain goes up on the stage, and I see it as a very potent question: What is going to happen to these two people in the room? Is someone going to open the door and come in?' (Esslin 235)

Pinter's first full-length play, The Birthday Party, perfectly embodies this single room purity. The play takes place in a single room, whose occupants are threatened by forces or people whose precise intentions neither the charac

Little is revealed about Stanley's past besides the fact that he was once a piano player and may or may not have once had a concert. This ambiguity becomes the driving force of the entire play. In the middle of the first act, the comic duo of Goldberg and McCann arrives, and it soon becomes clear that they are after Stanley. Like Samuel Beckett, Pinter refuses to provide rational explanations for the actions of his characters. Are the two emissaries of some secret organization Stanley has betrayed? Are they male nurses sent from an asylum from which Stanley has escaped? This question is never answered. Instead, the two men organized a birthday party for a terrified Stanley who insists that it is not his birthday.

The Birthday Party, was produced in 1958 at the Arts Theater in Cambridge. The play centers around Stanley, an a

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