The Birthday Party – 60th anniversary production

A production of Pinter’s The Birthday Party at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London, 60 years after its less than successful premier at the Lyric Hammersmith in 1958, has been announced. Ian Rickson, who directed Pinter in Krapp’s Last Tape in 2006, is in the director’s seat, and the cast so far announced at Toby Jones (Stanley) Zoë Wanamaker as Meg and Stephen Mangan as Goldberg. Tickets went on sale at midday yesterday. http://www.thebirthdayparty.london/