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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Stanley is quickly disturbed by Meg’s announcement that two men are coming to rent a room, yet he refuses to tell her why. When slick Goldberg (Will LeBow) and bumbling yet imposing McCann (Remo Airaldi) finally show up, Stanley is extremely ill at ease because he seems to recognize them. Stanley becomes even more uncomfortable when Meg invites the two men to help her throw him a birthday party, and keeps insisting to the men that it is not even his birthday—but, curiously, not in front...

Author: By Marin J. Orlosky, | Title: Review: The Birthday Party | 3/19/2004 | See Source »

...quite right permeates the play from the very beginning, lurking in the background like the greenish ocean-wave-printed walls on an otherwise unremarkable set. Even ordinary, everyday conversations about breakfast and the weather are disrupted by uncomfortably long pauses. Stanley’s connection to Goldberg and McCann is never explained; neither is Meg’s arbitrary fear of wheelbarrows...

Author: By Marin J. Orlosky, | Title: Review: The Birthday Party | 3/19/2004 | See Source »

Slimy, suave Goldberg becomes preoccupied with Lulu (Elizabeth Laidlaw), the perky foreign girl next door, while McCann becomes an amusingly sentimental drunk. Meg continues to be her loopy, cheerful self, and when Lulu suggests a game of Blind Man’s Buff, she agrees to it with delight...

Author: By Marin J. Orlosky, | Title: Review: The Birthday Party | 3/19/2004 | See Source »

...quite right permeates the play from the very beginning, lurking in the background like the greenish ocean-wave-printed walls on an otherwise unremarkable set. Even ordinary, everyday conversations about breakfast and the weather are disrupted by uncomfortably long pauses. Stanley’s connection to Goldberg and McCann is never explained; neither is Meg’s arbitrary fear of wheelbarrows...

Author: By Marin J. Orlosky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Review: The Birthday Party | 3/19/2004 | See Source »

Stanley is quickly disturbed by Meg’s announcement that two men are coming to rent a room, yet he refuses to tell her why. When slick Goldberg (Will LeBow) and bumbling yet imposing McCann (Remo Airaldi) finally show up, Stanley is extremely ill at ease because he seems to recognize them. Stanley becomes even more uncomfortable when Meg invites the two men to help her throw him a birthday party, and keeps insisting to the men that it is not even his birthday—but, curiously, not in front...

Author: By Marin J. Orlosky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Review: The Birthday Party | 3/19/2004 | See Source »

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