The Birthday Party
📝Written by Harold Pinter.
📍Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath.
🗓August 2024.
📍Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath.
🗓August 2024.
Director: Richard Jones
Set & Costume Designer: ULTZ
Lighting Designer & Co-Video Designer: Adam Silverman
Associate Lighting Designer & Co-Video Designer: Joe Price
Movement Director: Aletta Collins
Set & Costume Designer: ULTZ
Lighting Designer & Co-Video Designer: Adam Silverman
Associate Lighting Designer & Co-Video Designer: Joe Price
Movement Director: Aletta Collins
A seemingly innocent birthday party in a rundown seaside boarding house becomes a full-on nightmare when two sinister strangers arrive unexpectedly.
“Benjamin Grant’s paranoia-inducing sound design is deployed sparingly but to powerful effect, with thumping footsteps seeming to come from upstairs while voices – raised in laughter or rage-filled roars – filter through thin walls. And a passage of jaunty Wurlitzer music that starts and ends the piece perfectly reflects the 1950s setting, while simultaneously capturing the production’s frantic tone.”
Dave Fargnoli, The Stage