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The Birthday Party

Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare.

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The Birthday Partywas first performed in 1958 and is now a modern classic, produced and studied throughout the world.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 96 pages

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