Harold Pinter’s traditional comedy of menace, The Birthday Occasion starring Olivier Award, Tony Award and BAFTA nominee Jane Horrocks, performs the Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bathtub from Friday 2 – Saturday 31 August.
The total solid contains Jane Horrocks as Meg, Caolan Byrne as McCann, Carla Harrison-Hodge as Lulu, John Marquez as Goldberg, Sam Swainsbury as Stanley and Nicolas Tennant as Petey.
A seemingly harmless celebration in a rundown seaside boarding home turns into a full-on nightmare when two sinister strangers arrive unexpectedly.
Jane Horrocks’s stellar profession has embraced roles starting from Bubble within the TV sensation Completely Fabulous to West Finish acclaim in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, and Nicola in Mike Leigh’s Life is Candy to voicing memorable characters in multi-award nominated motion pictures Corpse Bride and Hen Run.
5-time Olivier Award successful director Richard Jones returns to the Ustinov Studio following final yr’s phenomenally acclaimed Machinal, which transferred to London’s Outdated Vic Theatre earlier this yr.