The Bithday Party (Lyttleton) (1994)

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The Birthday Party (1957)

Date from	11 March 1994 Previews on 11 and 14 March; press night on 17 March. Remained in repertory until July. This is the first London revival of the play (outside the West End, where it was produced in 1964-5) since the ill-fated premiere in 1958.
Date to	19 July 1994
No of Performances	49   Confidence Level
Language	English

Venues

National Theatre: Lyttelton Theatre

11-Mar-1994 to 19-Jul-1994

Previews: 11 and 14/7 at 19:30. Press night: 17/7 at 19:00.

Linked Productions

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Linked People

Sam Mendes (1964)

Creative | Director

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Tom Piper (1964)

Creative | Designer

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Mark Henderson (1957)

Creative | Lighting Designer

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Paddy Cunneen

Creative | Music

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John York

Creative | Sound Designer

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Linked Organisations

No Linked organisations have been added to this production record yet.

Characters

Petey (Age: sixties, Male)

Performer: Trevor Peacock (1931 - 2021)

Meg (Age: sixties, Female)

Performer: Dora Bryan (1923 - 2014)

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

Performer: Anton Lesser (1952)

Lulu (Age: twenties, Female)

Performer: Emma Amos (1964)

Goldberg (Age: fifties, Male)

Performer: Bob Peck (1945 - 1999)

McCann (Age: 30, Male)

Performer: Nicholas Woodeson (1949)

Linked Awards

The Laurence Olivier Award

1994

Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Dora Bryan)

The Laurence Olivier Award

1994

Nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Trevor Peacock)

Resources

Programme cover (Image)

Type: Theatre programme

Photostage image gallery (Image)

Type: Image gallery

External Link: https://www.photostage.co.uk/drama/pinter-harold/the-birthday-party-1975-to-2005.html

The page contains images from this and other productions of The Birthday Party

Sources

Harold Pinter Appointments Diary, 1994

The British Library Modern Manuscripts, The Harold Pinter Archive, Add MS 88880/12/27, no ff

Library archive

Information about performance times and venue taken from entries for March and July.

Daniel Rosenthal's The National Theatre Story

Daniel Rosenthal, The National Theatre Story (London: Oberon, 2013)

Academic book

Information about number of performances taken from Rosenthal's unpaginated book, and section for 1994.

National Theatre Archive

http://catalogue.nationaltheatre.org.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Performance&id=1306

Theatre archive