The Independent - London, February 12th, 2007
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 house, was interested in Pinter's plays. The Dumb Waiter was then half of a double bill, and its two characters certainly weren't played by actors as well known as Lee Evans and Jason Isaacs.
In this early play, Pinter's disquieting tone has a looseness and freshness far from the cranked-up intimidation of more recent work. Menace har...
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