The Dumb Waiter Written by Characters Ben Gus Date premiered 21 January 1960 Place premiered Original language English Genre Setting A basement room The Dumb Waiter is a one-act play by written in 1957. 'Small but perfectly formed, The Dumb Waiter might be considered the best of Harold Pinter's early plays, more consistent than and sharper than. It combines the classic characteristics of early Pinter – a paucity of information and an atmosphere of menace, working-class small-talk in a claustrophobic setting – with an oblique but palpable political edge and, in so doing, can be seen as containing the germ of Pinter's entire dramatic oeuvre'.

' The Dumb Waiter is Pinter distilled – the very essence of a writer who tapped into our desire to seek out meaning, confront injustice and assert our individuality.' • Derbyshire, Harry. 'Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter (review)', Modern Drama, vol 53, no 2 (2010), pp266-268. • ^ Glover, Jamie. 'The Dumb Waiter' (programme notes). The Print Room, 2013. • ^ Billington, Michael.

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Woolf, Harold Pinter wrote his first play, The Room. Offerings on hand here, The Dumb Waiter. Pinter’s circumstances, interests, and inclinations during.

(Ed) 'Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter'. Rodopi, 2009 • ^ Coppa, Francesca. 'The Sacred Joke: Comedy and Politics in Pinter’s Early Plays', The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter.

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One of two-part series, including a film of Pinter's first play,. Accessed 27 June 2008. [In the United States, this 60-min. Film was televised on ABC-TV with Pinter's original title, The Dumb Waiter, as the second of two parts of Altman's two-film series entitled Basements.] • Andrea LeVasseur...

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'The Dumb Waiter', Harold Pinter: Plays One. Faber & Faber, 1991. 15 January 2009.

The Dumb Waiter is Pinter’s second play. A one act play heavily influenced by Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, it revolves around two would-be assassins waiting to learn what their next assignment will be. These men, Ben and Gus, are polar opposites: Ben takes orders as they come without question, while Gus nervously awaits new assignments by peppering Ben with myriad questions. Ben is content with his living arrangement, while Gus itches to get out in the world and do something more substantive. As Ben and Gen await their newest assignment by debating odd topics and reading the newspaper, mysterious happenings occur.

Some unknown person keeps sending down random food orders through a dumb waiter, while their unseen boss Wilson keeps changing their instructions. The final showdown occurs not between the two assassins and their victim, but between Ben the assassin and Gus, who has been designated as the next victim. Told through Pinter’s distinctive wit and poignant pauses, The Dumb Waiter is one of Pinter’s most acclaimed earlier works.