Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party - "The Interrogation"

[WedgePianoMan]

THIS SHIT SUCKS DCK

[Jarrak]

Did this scene for my A-Level exam. Was fun.

[WedgePianoMan]

@Jarrak no one cares u dick

[languageoffootball]

"Who watered the wicket in Melbourne...? ...

You're a plague Webber. You're an overthrow..."

[suttyno9]

Doing this for my scene at school, playing McCann, really helped a lot in regards to how he expresses himself, great scene.

[MzTayTayy]

doing this scene for drama at school. Playing Goldberg.

This helped me a lot with different intentions that I can put into my character.

Such a weird play, but love it. Crazy Pinter.

[conewells]

Netflix doesn't even have this movie on their list. Typical.

[BusinessButterfly]

i love this... amazing work truly this

[azianchickle]

Studying this for English Lit ALevels! Love it, though I could see some improvements needed here...

[jizzbrakkett]

i think the bit where he says "enos-andrews' is weird coz he just sorta says "en-an"

its a bit odd

[BusinessButterfly]

@jizzbrakkett yes I was about to say that... "fake"

[mrmaxo]

@jizzbrakkett That's actually exactly how it's written in the play though :)

[jizzbrakkett]

@mrmaxo yes i realise that, i studied this play and basically wrote a 4000 word essay on it so yes, i know....but i still think the way he says it is weird......

[goback3spaces]

My Mom told me that the nuns treated her like this when she was in parochial school.

[chazzithebrit]

@goback3spaces  LOL !

[jimjam88]

brillant.i.love.harold.pinter

[airbreathingengine]

all three of these characters are different facets of one subject. the two interrogators (and their stream-0f-consciossness berating) represent the manic innermost questions of the (neurotically guilty) self. by creating separate characters for them, pinter deftly raises a question: does the subject lie in the terrorized "interviewee", or the mad "interrogators"? are we not our own demons?

[TheJunglesound]

This is terrible. Goldberg should have a more cockney accent. McCanns accent is not Irish enough.

[MrTaffyMann]

Im doing this scene for my Contemporary Theatre assessment in college :D Im Goldberg.

[TheJunglesound]

@MrTaffyMann Can you do an East London Accent?

[MrTaffyMann]

@TheJunglesound No I'm terrible at accents =/

[TheJunglesound]

@MrTaffyMann Where you from? If you can do any English accent it helps

[MrTaffyMann]

@TheJunglesound Wales, but I can do English, Oh and I've done my assessment now.

[booshgrrl]

I'm doing this next week at an arts open night :) I'm Stanley

[97972844]

Out of interest, how many of Pinter's plays have you seen?

[edmund184]

@97972844

I've seen:-

Party Time

The Homecoming

Celebration

One for the Road

The Lover

+ a number of his very short plays.

It seems to me all he says is the world is all about power struggles and people are at each others throats. His says very little about the complexity of human beings. Celebration for example is a really nasty work where a family just hates each other.

Compare him to Sam Shepard who writes plays in a similar style but says far more than Pinter.

[edmund184]

@edmund184

Just saw The Caretaker as well. Basically The Birthday Party re-written, and not nearly as compelling.

Dennis Potter was a better playwright.

[randomdave30]

The thing is it's supposed to be entertainment. However people feel the need to analyse it to death. It's a play - it's a bloody play. Play is supposed to be fun!

[LostHatProductions]

i saw this a few days ago and i didn't get this at all

[doctorterror69]

I think (and its only opinion) it's about the power of words, and words alone, to break down and destroy. What McCann and Goldberg are actually saying is pretty much gibberish, but their continual assault on Stan's senses is too much. Plus they slip in some questions that suggest a prior professional (criminal) association with him, a little bit of subtext about why Stan has hidden himself away and what he's hiding from. In amongst all the nonsense questions, Stan might have broken down. I dunno

[gyufuli]

well we had a lot of pinter analysis, it can be interpreted as a birth of a child into society. I would not get into the details now :D

[shadowhalfcast]

WHAT NAIL?

[shadowhalfcast]

doctorterror69 I think you've hit the nail on the head!

[doctorterror69]

Thanks! :D

[Krazzy12U]

Webber, you're a fake...

[googerblah]

Why does McCann move around like Frankenstein's fucking monster?

"Fire...bad...!"

[Metabeelus3]

Probably recovering from an old Irish tradition; the hangover, I'd say. Good to see the dynamic duo Goldman and McCann back in action on the small screen....

[triviumjake711]

mcanns voice is so messed up

[JamesKoutz013]

once i'm up, i'm up.

[tomsega]

Thought I recognised that guy - it's the cripple from A Clockwork Orange

[waddayouknow]

That's the excellent Sydney Tafler doing the double act with Magee

[carledge29]

go on. Upoad the entire film . Go on. Go on. Go on. Will you have a cup of tea, father?

[113032]

this film is downright crap, pinter is also shit, this play has ruined my a level course and it bores the tits off me,billjesusgates : your comment is wrong and you suck.

[tsuyamakaen]

See i thought at first when i did this for my a levels , "wow this sucks its sooo boring" and your right its boring as hell. But theres a reason its in the a levels, theres so much to do on it, it has so many angles. Its a crap play but a great one to act and write about. So sorry sir but i'm afraid you have no idea what your talking about and you failed because you didn't try hard enough

[DDenbaum]

Please upload the rest of the film!

[ajolly2]

Rest in

(Pause)

peace.

[sparksrule]

A minutes pause for him!

[sandiegoactress]

R.I.P. playwright Harold Pinter (1930-2008). We take a Pinteresque pause in your honor: [ ].

[billjesusgates]

he's dead.  so are we all in the end.

[egapnala65]

Harold Pinter RIP

[odinnshred]

Brilliant, disturbing scene. I love it

[onlyone123456789]

I just finished playing stanley webber this week and i have to say it was one of the more interesting characters i've ever done. Pinter has an interesting way of creating classics

[TravisFreak666]

"now you've had your rest you can get out"

"THATS A DIRTY TRICK O'ILL KICK THE SHOIT OUTTA HIM"

i love this play...as i have said in many occasions

[trazeebarb]

poor poor webber

[DarlinGracey]

That was a great help. We are studying status and tention in 'Drama' and I picked this scene as my study piece. :]

[snoopdogwb]

This is rubbish...me and my mates did a better job at as level

[solburnslow19]

"what makes you think you exist?"

[hooweelewis]

'where did you come from?'

'somewhere else.'

[Nirmanakaya]

is the script for this movie publically available? if so, please refer!

[Nnirvania]

It is a play, no problem getting. Just browse through any bookshop, prob 7£ or something

[badassrayman]

Once I'm up, I'm up!!

[TravisFreak666]

brilliant..im doing Stanley webber for my acting peice so it helps to give an insight to how another actor would play stanley

[redwesteastnorth]

Wouldn't recommend that. Might cloud your judgement. Better to try and interpret for yourself. You need to understand it for yourself. Not imitate an actor that already understands the role. You may find it does you more harm than good.

[TravisFreak666]

I took notes on how someone else would play stanley...i played him more on edge. i got full marks YUSS cheers for the advice though, i understand where your coming from

[tone143]

One of the best "mindscrew" scenes ever..like cats playing with a mouse.

[Stereolabdream]

The power of language. What a wonderful cast too.

[ColdChicago]

Friedkin? If you couldn't make this cast work, you should be doing used car commercials.. shaw, nichols and patrick mcgee--as good a cast as could be found speaking english....

[wingeddisc]

a ground-breaking playwright,really great...

[ElspethSquidbody]

Yes, stupid humans, alas

[tone143]

Yep-Friedkin rules.

[dantejones]

By far my favorite Pinter work. If anyone knows where to find it, let me know please.

[undefeatedhitman]

you can get is used on VHS on amazon or get the official DVD from amazon uk although it is region 2 but hey works for me

[friedkin]

This is one of the best film adaptations of Harold Pinter's work. It is also a clear example of just how gifted William Friedkin is as a visual storyteller. This vastly underrated film deserves a new DVD release; if you can get your hands on the now out-of-print VHS edition, it is well worth it!

[donning]

Do you know where I can get 'One For the Road' on DVD / VHS?