The Dumb Waiter is a one-act play by Harold Pinter, written in 1957. The Dumb Waiter was first produced at the Hampstead Theatre Club on January 21, 1960 and transferred to the Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square opening on 8 March 1960 with the same...
"The Dumb Waiter," which just opened at Metro Cafe courtesy of Sedentary Productions and Artists' Collective Endeavors, is not one of Harold Pinter's better plays. Written early in his career, the one-act owes enough to the work of Sam Beckett to be considered a...
Harry Burton's 50th-anniversary production of this one-hour play is a measure of how far Harold Pinter has come since its premiere. Not performed here until 1960, it was staged at the Hampstead Theatre Club, for no other fringe theatre, and certainly no West End...