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The Birthday Party review " Pinter's cryptic classic turns 60 with a starry cast by Michael Billington

Harold Pinter theatre, LondonToby Jones, Zoë Wanamaker, Stephen Mangan and Pearl Mackie do rich justice to the playwright's strange and captivating psychodrama"The first test of any work of art," claimed George Orwell, "is survival." If that is true, it is one Harold Pinter's play passes with flying colours.Derided on its debut in 1958, 60 years on The Birthday Party has lost none of its capacity to intrigue. In I…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PM on January 18, 2018

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