"Don't let them tell you what to do!" cries Petey, famously, as his houseguest Stanley is muscled away in the grip of two mysterious strangers. The plea echoes through the spooky final minutes of The Birthday Party, Harold Pinter's fascinating 1958 tale of suspense. But it also sounds a lot like a working manifesto for [...] Related StoriesContractionsTrystWe Tiresias
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:27AM on January 12, 2013