num_pages: 96
description: Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare.The Birthday Party was first performed in 1958 and is now a modern classic. Produced and studied throughout the world.
language: English
title: The Birthday Party
titlecomplete: The Birthday Party
characters: Stanley Webber, Goldberg, Meg, Lulu, Petey, McCann
genres: 20th Century, Theatre, Nobel Prize, School, Drama, Plays, Literature, Classics, British Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 12070
publisher: Faber & Faber