by Harold Pinter directed by Patrick Dooley

I was sitting in my living room sipping whiskey the morning after The Maids had opened contemplating how I was going to launch our next scheduled production of Caligula, when Dylan Kussman pulled a book off my shelf and asked, "What about The Birthday Party?"

Opened: October 24, 1996
Performed: Thursday & Friday & Saturday at 8:00 pm
Performed At: La Val's Subterranean Theatre, 1834 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley
Closed: November 23, 1996

Paul Vincent Black as McCann
Val Hendrickson as Goldberg
Dylan Kussman* as Stanley
Loraine Lewin as Meg
Erin Merritt as Lulu
Fred Smith as Petey
*appears courtesy of Actors' Equity Association

Patrick Dooley, director
Sara Kalick, stage manager
Richard Olmstead, set and light design
Clark Suprynowicz, original score
Bob Borwick, fight choreography
Benjamin Lovejoy, graphic design
Richard Reinholdt, minister of propoganda
Patrick Dooley, artistic director