The Birthday Party (Aldwych)
The Birthday Party (Aldwych)

The Birthday Party (Aldwych) (1964-1965)


The Birthday Party (Aldwych)

The Birthday Party (1957)

Date from

18 June 1964

Date indicates Press Night at the Aldwych Theatre. This is the first West End production of this play, and its first London professional revival. The play remained in repertory until January 1965. The performance was part of the RSC's celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.

Date to

14 January 1965

No of Performances Unknown
Language Unknown

Venues

Aldwych Theatre (Est. 1905)

18-Jun-1964 to 14-Jan-1965

Linked Productions

No linked Production have been added to this production record yet.

Linked People

Harold Pinter (1930 - 2008)

Creative | Director


Ralph Koltai (1924 - 2018)

Creative | Set Designer


Linked Organisations

Royal Shakespeare Company (Production Company | Est. 1961)

Waterside, Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6BA, UK

Characters

Petey (Age: sixties, Male)

Performer: Newton Blick (1899 - 1965)

Lulu (Age: twenties, Female)

Performer: Janet Suzman (1939)

Meg (Age: sixties, Female)

Performer: Doris Hare (1905 - 2000)

Goldberg (Age: fifties, Male)

Performer: Brewster Mason (1922 - 1987)

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

Performer: Bryan Pringle (1935 - 2002)

Petey (Age: sixties, Male)

Understudy: Morgan Sheppard (1932)

Lulu (Age: twenties, Female)

Understudy: Glenda Jackson (1936)

McCann (Age: 30, Male)

Understudy: Morgan Sheppard (1932)

Goldberg (Age: fifties, Male)

Understudy: Timothy West (1934)

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

Understudy: Derek Fuke (1934)

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

Understudy: Freddie Jones (1927 - 2019)

McCann (Age: 30, Male)

Performer: Patrick Magee (1922 - 1982)

Linked Awards

No award have been added to this production record yet.

Resources

RSC collections: The Birthday Party prompt book (URL)

Type: Archival holding

External Link: https://collections.shakespeare.org.uk/search/archive/arch-74229

Charles Portis, ''Dirt Plays' Rouse Fuss in London', The Washington Post, 27 August 1964 (URL)

Type: Newspaper article

External Link: https://www.proquest.com/docview/142157908/7538A524283749FEPQ/7?accountid=14664

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Bamber Gascgoine, 'Pinter makes it all too plain', The Observer, 21 June 1964 (URL)

Type: Review

External Link: https://www.proquest.com/docview/475714817/7538A524283749FEPQ/1?accountid=14664

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Philip Hope-Wallace, 'The Birthday Party', The Guardian, 19 June 1964 (URL)

Type: Review

External Link: https://www.proquest.com/docview/184975710/7538A524283749FEPQ/11?accountid=14664

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Sources

RSC Performance Database

http://collections.shakespeare.org.uk/search/rsc-performances/

URL

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