The only boarder is Stanley, who claims that he was a concert pianist, and who is frightened when two new boarders, McCann and Goldberg, arrive.
It is set at a boarding-house by the sea which belongs to a deck-chair attendant and his wife Meg. The only boarder is Stanley, who claims that he was a concert pianist, and who is frightened when two new boarders, McCann and Goldberg, arrive. FTP,  name this play, which ends with the newcomers taking Stanley away after he becomes hysterical during a game of blind-man's buff during the title event, a 1957 work that was the first success of Harold Pinter.
It is set at a boarding-house by the sea which belongs to a deck-chair attendant and his wife Meg.
The Birthday Party