The Birthday Party quotations

Question 1

Meg and Petey banality

x2

Answer 1

are they nice? very nice

is it nice out? very nice

Question 2

Meg on babies

Answer 2

I’d much rather have a little boy

Question 3

Stanley complimenting Meg (ish)

Answer 3

you succulent old washing bag

Question 4

Lulu to Stan

Answer 4

you’re a bit of a washout, aren’t you?

Question 5

Meg being absurd about Stan’s b-day

Answer 5

It’s his birthday today… But i’m not going to tell him until tonight

Question 6

Goldberg being menacing about party (act 1)

Answer 6

We’ll bring him our of himself

Question 7

Goldberg complimenting Meg in act 1

Answer 7

Madam, you’ll look like a tulip

Question 8

Stanley beating the drum

x2

Answer 8

erratic, uncontrolled

savage and posessed

Question 9

repeated thing about G’s name

x2 dialogue

Answer 9

I thought your name was Nat

She called me Simey

Question 10

Interrogation: McCann being Irish

Answer 10

That’s a Black and Tan fact

Question 11

Interrogation: McCann maybe mentioning where they’re from

Answer 11

You betrayed the organisation! I know him!

Question 12

Interrogation: scary repeated interpolation

Answer 12

you’re dead

Question 13

Interrogation: banal/ everyday

x2

Answer 13

Enos or Andrews?

En- An-

Question 14

Interrogation: what Stan smells like

Answer 14

you stink of sin

Question 15

Interrogation: medical scary idea

Answer 15

we can sterilise you

Question 16

noise Stan makes with the chair above his head

Answer 16

Uuuuuhhhhh

Question 17

Lulu to Gberg at party

Answer 17

I trust you

Question 18

Gberg menace to Lulu at party

Answer 18

you should worry

Question 19

Lulu and Stan end of act 2

x2

Answer 19

Lulu is spread-eagled on the table, Stanley bent over her

begins to giggle

Question 20

what Gberg is repeating before his breakdown different ways he says it
x4

Answer 20

Because i believe that the world

vacant
desperate
lost

Question 21

Lulu getting annoyed at Gberg

Answer 21

you used me for a night, a passing fancy

Question 22

what McCann shouts at Lulu

Answer 22

Confess!

Question 23

second interrogation stage direction

Answer 23

they begin to woo him gently and with relish

Question 24

Stan act 3 nonsense words

Answer 24

ug-gughh …ug-gughh

Question 25

Petey brave moment

Answer 25

Stan, don’t let them tell you what to do!

Question 26

Meg delusion of herself at the party

Answer 26

i was the belle of the ball

Question 27

last line of the play

Answer 27

oh it’s true

I know I was