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who has a close relationship with the boss, speculates that they might be here not just to hide from the police but also to kill another person. Ken is calm and enjoys the opportunity to do some sightseeing in Bruges while waiting for their orders, while the younger man, Ray, is emotionally volatile, swinging between boredom and severe guilt at shooting the young boy. While the two men await their orders they argue and one of them bemoans their circumstances. Eventually the boss calls, asks Ken to send Ray out of the room, and then informs him that the trip to Bruges was intended to be a farewell gift for Ray, who he must now assassinate as justice for killing the young boy.
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him to do a thing like that?" which shifts responsibility and suggests the old man was a victim to be pitied. "The eventual split between Ben and Gus is foreshadowed in the very first joke.... By the end of the play, Pinter has trained us to see that the content of the joke-exchange is meaningless: what is important is the structure, and the alliances and antagonisms it reveals."
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the play open to interpretation, "wanting his audience to complete his plays, to resolve in their own ways these irresolvable matters". Pinter stated that "between my lack of biographical data about and the ambiguity of what they say lies a territory which is not only worthy of exploration but which it is compulsory to explore".
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Another interpretation is that the play is a political drama showing how the individual is destroyed by a higher power. "Each of Harold Pinter's four plays ends in the virtual annihilation of an individual.... It is by his bitter dramas of dehumanisation that he implies "the importance of humanity".
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In the theatre, the emotional power of the play is more readily felt than understood. Pinter "created his own theatrical grammar – he didn't merely write characters that had an emotional response to something... But instead, through his characters' interactions and phrasings, Pinter seemed to conjure
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Gus leaves the room to get a drink of water in the bathroom, and the dumbwaiter's speaking tube whistles (a sign that there is a person on the other end who wishes to communicate). Ben listens carefully—we gather from his replies that their victim has arrived and is on his way to the room. Ben shouts
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The stories Ben picks out from his newspaper have a similar purpose. He describes an old man, wanting to cross the street, who crawls under a lorry and is run over by it (but it is not clear if the man is killed or not). Ben seems to expect the response, "What an idiot!" but Gus replies "Who advised
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which also features two hitmen waiting in confinement for instructions from their mob boss after they accidentally killed a young boy during their last assassination. Neither of them understand why they have been sent to Bruges, since they could easily be kept hidden in the UK — the older man, Ken,
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Overall, "it makes much more sense if seen as a play about the dynamics of power and the nature of partnership. Ben and Gus are both victims of some unseen authority and a surrogate married couple quarrelling, testing, talking past each other and raking over old times". It is "a strongly political
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Although the play is realistic in many ways, particularly the dialogue between Ben and Gus, there are also elements that are unexplained and seemingly absurd, particularly the messages delivered by the dumb waiter itself, and the delivery of an envelope containing twelve matchsticks. Pinter leaves
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The windowless basement is characteristic of Pinter's sets. "Pinter's rooms are stuffy, non-specific cubes, whose atmosphere grows steadily more stale and more tense. At the opening curtain these rooms look naturalistic, meaning no more than the eye can contain. But, by the end of each play, they
201:, Ben and Gus, are waiting in a basement room for their assignment. As the play begins, Ben, the senior member of the team, is reading a newspaper, and Gus, the junior member, is tying his shoes. Gus asks Ben many questions as he gets ready for their job and tries to make tea. They argue over the 251:
combines "the staccato rhythms of music-hall cross-talk and the urban thriller". The dialogue between Ben and Gus, while seemingly concerned only with trivial newspaper stories, football matches and cups of tea, reveals their characters. In Pinter's early plays, "it is language that betrays the
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of the title refers to the serving hatch and food lift that delivers orders to the gunmen. It could also refer to Gus, who fails to realise that he is waiting to be the victim, or even to Ben, whose obedience to a higher authority eventually forces him to eliminate his partner.
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for Gus, who is still out of the room. The door that the target is supposed to enter from flies open, Ben rounds on it with his gun, and Gus enters, stripped of his jacket, waistcoat, tie and gun. There is a long silence as the two stare at each other before the curtain falls.
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of "light the kettle" and "put on the kettle". Ben continues reading his paper for most of the time, occasionally reading excerpts of it to Gus. Ben gets increasingly animated, and Gus's questions become more pointed, at times nearly nonsensical.
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Although the play uses "the semantic nit-picking that is a standard part of music hall comedy" and is generally considered funny, this is not comedy for its own sake, but "a crucial part of the power-structure".
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play about the way a hierarchical society, in pitting the rebel against the conformist, places both at its mercy", but at the same time "a deeply personal play about the destructiveness of betrayal".
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At Malibu Junior High School sometime in 1979 Emilio Estevez staged this one-act play with young friend and fellow classmate Jeff Lucas. Jeff Lucas played Ben and Emilio Estevez played Gus.
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The religion and society, which have traditionally structured human morality, are, in Pinter's plays, the immoral agents that destroy the individual." Pinter supported the interpretation of
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In 2012 a young Mark Pallister took on the role of Gus as original cast member the now Famous Lee Evans was unavailable due to his touring schedule.
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is Pinter distilled – the very essence of a writer who tapped into our desire to seek out meaning, confront injustice and assert our individuality."
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One interpretation is that the play is an absurdist comedy about two men waiting in a universe without meaning or purpose, like
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Mark went on to take further acting roles however it is not known if he is still pursuing an acting career today.
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as Gus, had an extended run in a COVID secure setting with the audience masked and socially distanced.
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The first performance in London was in January 1960, as part of a double bill with Pinter's first play
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1959 – the play was turned down by the BBC, being considered "too obscure" for the TV audience.
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villains – more pat, more cliché-ridden, with more brute power than that of their victims".
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event aims to spread awareness of playwrights and playwrighting from around the globe.
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might be considered the best of Harold Pinter's early plays, more consistent than
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1981 – the play was produced for BBC Radio starring Roy Kinnear and Bob Hoskins.
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was directed by Bob Carlton, with Peter Howitt as Ben and Tim Healy as Gus.
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Glover, Jamie. "The Dumb Waiter" (programme notes). The Print Room, 2013.
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In 2019 the play was part of a season of Pinter's one-act plays at the
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in February 1959 with Rudolf H. Krieg as Ben and Werner Berndt as Gus.
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Brewer, Mary F. (Ed) "Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter". Rodopi, 2009
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as Ben and George Tovey as Gus. The production transferred to the
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Derbyshire, Harry. "Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter (review)",
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on 12 May 1987, as part of Altman's two-part series entitled
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Hosted by a group of professional theatre artists, the
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as "political plays about power and victimisation".
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Harold Pinter
Hampstead Theatre Club
United Kingdom
Comedy drama
Official site
Harold Pinter
hit-men
semantics
dumbwaiter
dumb waiter
Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot
The Birthday Party
The Birthday Party
The Caretaker
The Room
Hampstead Theatre Club
James Roose-Evans
Nicholas Selby
Royal Court Theatre
Theatre Royal Haymarket
Trafalgar Studios
Jason Isaacs
Lee Evans
The Print Room

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