{"id":1079,"date":"2024-01-12T14:17:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T14:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thds2.wpcomstaging.com\/?page_id=1079"},"modified":"2024-02-26T15:10:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T15:10:28","slug":"march-2013-the-birthday-party","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/?page_id=1079","title":{"rendered":"March 2013 &#8211; The Birthday Party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/goldberg-mccann-and-stanley.jpg?w=525\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1080\" style=\"width:476px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Playwright &#8211; Harold Pinter<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Location &#8211; Harrogate\u2002Studio Theatre<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Director &#8211; Ian Rattee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cast<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Meg &#8211; Jenny Antram<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Petey &#8211; John Wilford<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stanley &#8211; Bill Crewe<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lulu &#8211; Lucy Evans<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Goldberg &#8211; Derek Newton<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>McCann &#8211; Alan Harwood<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Stanley Webber is the only lodger in Meg and Petey Boles&#8217; seaside boarding house. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One morning, while Meg and Stanley are bantering over breakfast, she mentions that two visitors are coming to stay for the night. Stanley immediately grows apprehensive, sensing imminent danger. His fears are confirmed when Goldberg and his partner McCann arrive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meg announces that it&#8217;s Stanley&#8217;s birthday, and even though Stanley insists it is not, Goldberg demands a celebration. After a few glasses of whiskey and a game of blindman&#8217;s bluff, Stanley&#8217;s birthday party turns into a nightmare. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Goldberg and McCann drag Stanley off to an upstairs room, and by morning they&#8217;ve rendered him a mute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cast Stanley Webber is the only lodger in Meg and Petey Boles&#8217; seaside boarding house. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1079","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2824,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1079\/revisions\/2824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}