Forms of media research

The Birthday Party (1958) is the first full-length play by Harold Pinter and one of Pinter's best-known and most-frequently performed plays. After its hostile London reception almost ended Pinter's playwriting career, it went on to be considered "a classic".

The Birthday Party is about Stanley Webber, an erstwhile piano player in his 30s, who lives in a rundown boarding house, run by Meg and Petey Boles, in an English seaside town, "probably on the south coast, not too far from London". Two sinister strangers, Goldberg and McCann, who arrive supposedly on his birthday and who appear to have come looking for him, turn Stanley's apparently innocuous birthday party organized by Meg into a nightmare.

Another example of a type of media is theatre. This play by 'Pinter' is similar to our film idea in that Birthdays and Birthday parties are meant to be joyous celebrations however in the case of our film and this play it is not the case. By turning a happy occasion such as a birthday party into a 'nightmare' we believe this will bring the audience out of their comfort zones and be all the more shocking and unexpected.