Harold Pinter - English playwright, poet, director, actor, public figure; winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2005. One of the most influential British playwrights of his time. “The Birthday Party” is one of a series of plays by G. Pinter, called “comedy of menace” by critics. The action takes place in a resort town on the coast of England, in the house of an elderly couple - the talkative and sloppy landlady Meg and her good-natured, silent husband Petey, who rent out rooms with breakfast to a few guests. In fact, there is only one guest at the moment, the degraded former pianist Stanley, for whom Meg feels an annoying, hardly maternal affection...