"I didn't know for a long time what the play was about," he said.
Dr. Ruth is "responding to sexual situations throughout," he said, "but if that's all the play was about, it wouldn't be a play".
Lewis asked Betty what the play was about, and Betty said that one of the characters was a psychiatrist who studied serial killers.
Then one day, in a conversation with a friend, he had a breakthrough, realizing what his play was about: the connection between Chauncey's burlesque act and his self-image and self-esteem, "and what society says about you and what you feel you are worthy of," he said.
Box office: 0871 221 1729.\ 'What it all means, only Mr Pinter knows...' How critics saw The Birthday Party in 1958, selected by Maddy Costa The author never got down to earth long enough to explain what his play was about, so I can't tell you.
Despite its merits ("a rough gusto... and an almost tape-recorder authenticity in some snatches of dialogue"), Shulman felt that the play was "about as convincing as some dream fantasy watched through a distorting mirror", and that its young author "knows as much about adult behaviour as she does about elephants".
When a friend asked him what the new play was about, he said: "I don't know.
There were few other clues as to what the play was about, or what to expect if you showed up.
His play was about a paraplegic.
His wife asked him what the play was about.
Wolfe said that the entire play was about the woman in the coffin.
