In Meg and Petey's seedy English boarding house, breakfast consists of cornflakes, fried bread and tea. Stanley, their only boarder, is having his birthday. But their peaceful, if mundane, existence is threatened by the arrival of two mysterious strangers. Who are they looking for? Did they bring a van and a wheelbarrow? After a few glasses of whiskey and a game of blindman's buff, Stanley's birthday party turns into something both sinister and disorienting.
Harold Pinter is at his mysterious best in this spine-chilling comic riff on free-floating menace. Winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature, Pinter's other plays include The Caretaker, The Homecoming, Old Times and Betrayal.
Appropriate for ages 12 and up