synopsis:

IN The Birthday Party stanley, A musician, escapes to a strange boarding house, where he falls victim to the shadowy, ritualized violence of two men who have followed him from his sinister past.

on this book:

The play is a study of domination that sows doubts, terrors, shuddering illuminations and terrifying apprehensions inside the four walls of a living-room. stanleys mysterious 'guilt' can be interpreted in whatever way you like it, but it is scary enough even without knowing what pinter really 'meant'.this play was adapted on film by william friedkin in 1968.