The Washington Post, November 15th, 1997
"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 defaulted loan. Pinter does supply his own brand of irony, but it's not enough to make the piece resonate independent of, specifically, "Waiting for Godot." Moreover, director John Castro gives short shrift to irony in favor of mining the existential angst. The comedy still comes through but, like the overall production, it doesn't fee...
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