Theatre review: The Birthday Party - Everyman, Cork
Set in a shabby boarding house in an English seaside town, Harold Pinter’s puzzling play, first produced in 1958 and mostly panned by the critics, eventually came to be regarded as a classic.
Brought to Cork by London Classic Theatre, this is a tense production with occasional flashes of humour. It keeps you on the edge of your seat with its twists and turns, sometimes serving as clues as to what lies beneath. But you could be theorising forever as to whether, for example, the characters of Goldberg and the defrocked priest, McCann, represent the historically oppressed and autocratic religions of Judaism and Catholicism, as has been suggested.
