The Birthday Party (Questors) (1959)

The Birthday Party (1957)

Date from	5 December 1959
Date to	16 December 1959
No of Performances	Unknown
Language	English

Venues

Questors Theatre (Est. 1933)

05-Dec-1959 to 16-Dec-1959

Linked Productions

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Linked People

Michael Almaz (1921 - 2012)

Creative | Director

‘Production’ in the programme.

George Benn

Creative | Set Designer

Andy Anderson

Creative | Lighting Designer

Helen Blatch (1934 - 2015)

Creative | Costume Designer

Norman Granger

Creative | Sound Designer

‘Sound’ in the programme.

Sylvia Langdon-Down

Technical | Stage Manager

Tony Bartlett

Technical | Deputy Stage Manager

Hilda Collins

Creative | Wardrobe Mistress

Linked Organisations

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Characters

Meg (Age: sixties, Female)

Performer: Jo Arundel

Petey (Age: sixties, Male)

Performer: Ned Gethings

Stanley (The Birthday Party) (Age: late thirties, Male)

Performer: Peter Whelan (1931 - 2014)

Lulu (Age: twenties, Female)

Performer: Ann Symons

Goldberg (Age: fifties, Male)

Performer: Cyril Spencer

McCann (Age: 30, Male)

Performer: Bernard McLaughlin

Linked Awards

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Resources

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Sources

The Questors Theatre Archive

http://archive.questors.org.uk/prods/1959/birthdayparty/page.html

Theatre archive

Contains image of the original programme. Accessed 26 June 2020.

British Library Manuscript Collections. Pinter Archive. 'Book 1' [Pinter's scrapbooks]; July 1956-April 1960. Add MS 88880/8/1

https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb58-addms88880/addms88880/8/1

Archival materials