Which of the following are stage directions in Pinter's The Birthday Party?
- A. The living-room of a house in a seaside town
- B. A garbage pail beside the porch steps
- C. Light from an upstairs bedroom
- D. Stanley hangs the drum round his neck, marches and beats it
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Correct answer: A. A and D only
Explanation
The play opens in Meg and Petey's seaside boarding-house living-room. At the end of Act I Stanley beats Meg's birthday drum 'savage, possessed'.
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