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Harry Derbyshire reviewed the play in Modern Drama, concluding "Small but perfectly formed, The Dumb Waiter might be considered the best of Harold Pinter's early plays, more consistent than The Birthday Party and sharper than The Caretaker. It combines the classic characteristics of early Pinter – a paucity of information and an atmosphere of ...
The Caretaker and The Dumb Waiter: Two Plays by Harold Pinter. 1960. New York: Grove Press, 1988. ISBN 0-8021-5087-X (10). ISBN 978-0-8021-5087-5 (13). (Parenthetical citations to The Dumb Waiter in the text are from this ed. of the play, which is accessible online via Google Books "limited preview".
The Dumb Waiter (1957) A Slight Ache (1958) The Hothouse (1958) ... An Anthology Selected by Harold Pinter, Anthony Astbury, & Geoffrey Godbert (1987; rpt. 1992)
It featured productions of seven of Pinter's plays: The Caretaker, Voices, No Man's Land, Family Voices, Tea Party, The Room, One for the Road, and The Dumb Waiter; and films (most his screenplays; some in which Pinter appears as an actor). [168] In February and March 2007, a 50th anniversary of The Dumb Waiter, was produced at the Trafalgar ...
The Room is Harold Pinter's first play, written and first produced in 1957. Considered by critics the earliest example of Pinter's "comedy of menace", this play has strong similarities to Pinter's second play, The Birthday Party, including features considered hallmarks of Pinter's early work and of the so-called Pinteresque: dialogue that is comically familiar and yet disturbingly unfamiliar ...
Pages in category "Plays by Harold Pinter" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. ... The Dumb Waiter; F. Family Voices; H. The Homecoming; The ...
Landscape is a one-act play by Harold Pinter that was first broadcast on radio in 1968 and first performed on stage in 1969. The play shows the difficulties of communication between two people in a marriage.
The two characters Ben and Gus in Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter. A two-hander is a term for a play, film, or television programme with only two main characters. [1] The two characters in question often display differences in social standing or experiences, differences that are explored and possibly overcome as the story unfolds.