Hampstead theatre, LondonThis revival of Harold Pinter's two-hander about a pair of Beckettian hitmen raises questions for the age of strongman politics There is an "amusing story" about the first performance of The Dumb Waiter at the Hampstead Theatre Club in 1960, according to its director, James Roose-Evans. The run was packed out, he remembers, despite the disaster of Harold Pinter's second play, The Birthday Party, which was cancelled after a week. But though this third play was a sensation...
The Dumb Waiter review - Pinter's enigma picks at the roots of power
The Guardian - 10 Dec 2020 02:01
Hampstead theatre, LondonThis revival of Harold Pinter's two-hander about a pair of Beckettian hitmen raises questions for the age of strongman politics There is an "amusing story" about the first performance of The Dumb Waiter at the Hampstead Theatre Club in 1960, according to its director, James Roose-Evans. The run was packed out, he remembers, despite the disaster of Harold Pinter's second play, The Birthday Party, which was cancelled after a week. But though this third play was a sensation...
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