The Stranger, June 29th, 2006
The Birthday Party Capitol Hill Arts Center Through July 8. The Impertinent Dead The Birthday Party AS TIME PASSES, Harold Pinter seems more memorable as a theorist than a dramatist. He won last year's Nobel Prize for Literature and is too widely revered for inventing subtext, musical dialogue, and dramatic ambiguity-he held a shovel at the groundbreaking ceremony for a new kind of theater, but his youngers and betters have actually done the building. His is an achievement more deserving of prizes than productions. And yet they come. CHAC's production of The Birthday Party, directed by J...
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