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Date Posted: Saturday, May 17, 05:17:35pm
In reply to:
Leila
's message, "The Birthday party - Brilliant but confusing!" on Saturday, May 17, 08:19:37am
thanks leila for your summary of the play! couldn't have done a better job :). after I dropped you off at st pancras I've had a long stroll through london and thought about the play. I really did like it very much. apart from the marvellous acting of most of the cast, the story was also well thought about! nothing at all like I expected from my reading pinter at high school. (I mean: having to read pinter...) haha, I think I was too young. I really appreciate it now.
well, I'll give a proper reaction later; I just got back from london; got the kids in bed and now I could really do with a hot bath!
thanks again leila, for bringing up the play; if sheila does another play, musical, or... whatever: I'll take the first train to london again! it's so wonderful to see sheila act; and again, it was a priviledge to meet her!
sandra
>Well...
>
>As you all know yesterday Sandra and I went to see
>Harold Pinter's The birthday Party at the Lyric
>Hammersmith Theatre. The show was brilliant but as I
>sit and write this, the next morning, I am still
>confused with what really happened in the show.
>
>The Lyric theatre was a really surprise for me,
>because from the outside I doesn’t look like a lovely
>old theatre, inside it is amazing, and very, very
>nice. Taking our seats we wait for the show. The show
>opens and as usual there are lots of pauses. Petey
>(Alan Williams) arrives on Stage, reads his paper,
>then you meet Meg (Sheila Hancock). Meg doesn’t seem
>to live in the real world, she seems to think
>everything is lovely and asks the same questions over
>and over. She lives in a dream world, however Petey
>does, he tells her he meet two men on the beach who
>wanted room, and that they would come and see her
>today. Then we meet Stan (Justin Salinger) and there
>seems to be a lot of Meg trying to get something more
>from Stan. She even tries to put her hand down his
>top, Meg seems like a teenager, in a grown woman, we
>meet Lulu (Sian Brooke) soon after Meg goes shopping.
>We meet Goldberg (Nicholas Woodeson) and McCann (Lloyd
>Hutchinson). When Mag tells them its Stan’s birthday
>they plan a party (even through Meg is a month early).
>The curtain falls on the first act and you’re not too
>sure what is really happening.
>
>The Second Act is the Party, and strange things start
>happening, the funniest moment is Meg in her party
>dress. Goldberg slaps her bottom, which made me laugh!
>Meg is the belle of the ball. However Stan isn’t
>happy. I got the feeling that he knew Goldberg but as
>they start to bully him I really don’t get what is
>happening as Stan starts to snap. They play party
>games which ends with Stan trying to kill Meg, and the
>lights going out and the second act finishes with Stan
>laughing and Lulu lay on the table.
>
>The third act is the morning after the night before
>and is shorter than the rest of the acts. Meg has a
>hangover, Petey missed the party and Goldberg slept
>with Lulu. Stan is going mad in his room. Petey tries
>to stop Goldberg and McCann leaving with Stan but they
>leave with him, but he doesn’t tell Meg, who seems to
>believe that Stan is still in his room and the curtain
>falls.
>
>Nothing is explained, and you have to make guesses.
>However at the same time the play is amazing and well
>put together, its brilliantly acting. After the show I
>waited to meet Sheila in the bar of the theatre and
>her first question was how did you like it, I was
>truthful and said it was brilliant but I am completely
>confused. Sheila said that is the right reaction.
>Sheila told me what she thought the play was about and
>explain a few pointers. Before we talked about other
>things, all the time people were coming up to Sheila,
>and telling her she had been great. And she had been.
>It was brilliant. Sheila walked us to the underground
>stop before heading for her car (she only lives a
>short distance away from the theatre) It was great
>seeing her again!
>
>Sandra I am glad you had a good time, and thanks for
>coming to my train with me, I got back to Nottingham
>and was in bed for three this morning! I hope to see
>you again soon!!
>
>Love Leila x
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