The Birthday Party quotations Flashcards
Meg and Petey banality
x2
are they nice? very nice
is it nice out? very nice
Meg on babies
I’d much rather have a little boy
Stanley complimenting Meg (ish)
you succulent old washing bag
Lulu to Stan
you’re a bit of a washout, aren’t you?
Meg being absurd about Stan’s b-day
It’s his birthday today… But i’m not going to tell him until tonight
Goldberg being menacing about party (act 1)
We’ll bring him our of himself
Goldberg complimenting Meg in act 1
Madam, you’ll look like a tulip
Stanley beating the drum
x2
erratic, uncontrolled
savage and posessed
repeated thing about G’s name
x2 dialogue
I thought your name was Nat
She called me Simey
Interrogation: McCann being Irish
That’s a Black and Tan fact
Interrogation: McCann maybe mentioning where they’re from
You betrayed the organisation! I know him!
Interrogation: scary repeated interpolation
you’re dead
Interrogation: banal/ everyday
x2
Enos or Andrews?
En- An-
Interrogation: what Stan smells like
you stink of sin
Interrogation: medical scary idea
we can sterilise you
noise Stan makes with the chair above his head
Uuuuuhhhhh
Lulu to Gberg at party
I trust you
Gberg menace to Lulu at party
you should worry
Lulu and Stan end of act 2
x2
Lulu is spread-eagled on the table, Stanley bent over her
begins to giggle
what Gberg is repeating before his breakdown different ways he says it
x4
Because i believe that the world
vacant
desperate
lost
Lulu getting annoyed at Gberg
you used me for a night, a passing fancy
what McCann shouts at Lulu
Confess!
second interrogation stage direction
they begin to woo him gently and with relish
Stan act 3 nonsense words
ug-gughh …ug-gughh
Petey brave moment
Stan, don’t let them tell you what to do!
Meg delusion of herself at the party
i was the belle of the ball
last line of the play
oh it’s true
I know I was
