PINTER'S THE BIRTHDAY PARTY Part 3 of 4

BBC production of one of Harold Pinter's most popular dramas.
I am posting this production for educational purposes and not for profit.
Cast
Meg.......... Joan Plowright.
Petey.......... Robert Lang.
Goldberg.......... Harold Pinter
McCann.......... Colin Blakely.
Stanley .......... Kenneth Cranham
Lulu .......... Julie Walters.

[@gunjanpalariya7953]

This really helps in understanding the play rather than reading a whole book. Through video the understanding becomes more easy.

[@perpieta]

Yes, it is a great treat to watch Pinter play his words. And as you say, he wrote this when he was a mere 28--astonishing.

[@tweegeTX3]

True but he looked 49

[@alpehyl]

Touched by greatness, whatever that is

[@mintybadgerproductions]

@@tweegeTX3 This adaptation was made about twenty years after he wrote the play.

[@franknightingale6116]

Was he in a mental hospital at the time ?

[@salonichaudhari4742]

Him tearing the newpaper into pieces is the most annoying sound ever.

[@clumsydad7158]

for me it was just representational of the other annoying chatter and constant disturbances people are making for another

[@thepearlatelier4256]

Ms Joan Plowright, looking absolutely divine here. I love her. Thanks so much for posting. I can hear the british accent all day long and not get sick of it. Esp coming from Ms Joan, her voice and her accent, what a treat.

[@user-bc9mn7gq2c]

Yes and brilliant acting on her part, I thought.

[@sbracco77]

Thanks for posting! Glad there are other passionate Pinter fans out there. Saw "The Homecoming" on Bway with Ian McShane few years back. That would be a great production to videotape.

[@georgestanely6507]

Ian Holm I think you mean.

[@manfromnocky]

No George Ian Mcshane played Lenny in a New York production too.

[@rockystandingart5046]

Stanley Webber. Meg Boles. Petey Boles. Goldberg. McCann. Lulu. Monty.

[@jasonpfinch]

2:47-5:22. Great work by Pinter.

[@Phrixphrox]

Thank you for uploading this. Superb

[@123anapet]

Είναι τόσο πιστό στο κείμενο!!!!!!!Ευχαριστούμε για την ανάρτηση!!!

[@idleBuddy]

13:14 I can see Pinter touching LULU's boobs there. XD Wonderful Play by the way.

[@Stereolabdream]

Wonderful....but perhaps this production is one of the last remnants of the idea that a "northern accent" represented "working class" (the play is set on the south coast of England, and Friedkin's film at least stays loyal to that). Julie Walters is marvelous...the only actor surpassing the Friedkin version (Its fascinating watching Pinter in his own play, but he's still not as good).

[@stevecox7075]

Wonderful theatre!

[@dancingtrout6719]

robert shaw in another birthday movie,,??

[@aprilapril2]

Julie Walters as lulu. Lovely to see her

[@jacobrotschield4998]

Hi! Do you have, by any chance Peer gynt filmes 1972? thank yiou

[@DuckboyJiden]

Genius

[@martinbrown1710]

I'd like to put Goldberg and McCann from this production into the Friedkin film, which is great - that would be extra perfect.

[@britteach]

+Martin Brown. Good idea. I actually kind of like the Friedkin version of Pinter's play on film a little better than this production. I think I like it better because you have the great British actor, Robert Shaw, in the lead role as Webber. Shaw also appeared on film in an early 1960s production of The Caretaker which was brilliant. He had strong Co stars in Alan Bates and Donald Pleasance that makes the film version of the play a gem. Even so, the BBC production posted here is hard to find and it does have Pinter playing the part of Goldberg which is great and Joan Plowright as Meg. She is perfectly ditzy and she cracks me up.

[@martinbrown1710]

+britteach I think the Friedkin film is more authentic - this adaptation gives me the feeling that they are actors performing a play. Obviously, Pinter is the exception to this - he is the sole thing that makes this watchable for me really. Dandy Nichols is superb in the film - perfectly plays the small town claustrophobia and Meg's bizarrely unknowing fantasy world. According to wikipedia Robert Shaw was born in Lancashire, rather than in Wales. I watched The Caretaker with Robert Shaw also - completely brilliant. It's so easy to make Pinter's dialogue sound contrived and artificial, but Bates, Pleasence, and Shaw create a masterpiece. Which of the brothers do you see Pinter playing in The Caretaker?

[@britteach]

+Martin Brown That’s a tough question. Aston and Mick seem to be alter egos. I can see a young Pinter in the role of Mick and an older Pinter in the role of Aston. Bates, Shaw and Pleasance define the roles so well in the 1963 film that it is difficult for me to see anyone else in the parts. I saw Kyle MacLachlan, Aidan Gillen, and Patrick Stewart as Aston, Mick and Davies on Broadway in 2003, and while I liked the performances, it was a very different experience from watching the black and white film.

[@martinbrown1710]

+britteach The Caretaker, in particular, has a very British feel about it - the film is especially evocative of that downtrodden post-war period in Britain. I don't feel that a Broadway production with US actors would evoke much of that really - Patrick Stewart is always good though. I can see The Birthday Party adapted for Broadway with the Jewish / Irish combination of Goldberg / McCann and the undertones of organised crime in the background. I don't know what the New York equivalent of Petey's deckchairs would be though lol

[@Louise_xxx]

@@britteach Sorry to correct you, but Robert Shaw was born in Westhoughton, Lancashire and was English. Thank you for sharing this wonderful version of The Birthday Party. Much appreciated. 👍👌👏

[@benwinter2420]

Captain goodvibes

[@Sangsangirenthlei3-fs6eb]

This are the exact word from the book

[@dimplenirwan4727]

Plz upload the movie on a doll's house...

[@alfriendo2008]

They should really consider putting this on the big screen. Wilson's work "Fences" worked beautifully well with Washington and Davis in the principle roles.Why not this?

[@plasticweapon]

william friedkin already did in 1968. kzbin.info/www/bejne/ammrk56Ibd9qnMU don't miss this. it's magnificent.

[@manfromnocky]

There is a movie. With Robert Shaw. Its on YT.

[@remjd4961]

Wats wrong with Stanley??

[@britteach]

Stanley is depressed.

[@clumsydad7158]

Mid-life and no one needs you ... i've felt those vibes, not good

[@dimplenirwan4727]

Between 11.56..17 Stanley looking so sadly

[@sharonlinford8145]

Don't make em like that anymore

[@edmund184]

all very worthy. But Dennis Potter is much better.

[@aprilapril2]

edmund184 pennies and detective were the finest productions ever. Not in the same league.

[@itchygonads]

What did Stanley do to get these chaps so worked up about him ?