Harold Pinterâs extraordinary one-act play features gripping language, amid claustrophobia, confusion and tension
18 December, 2020 â By Lucy Popescu
Shane Zaza and Alec Newman in The Dumb Waiter. Photo: Helen Maybanks
IT was an absolute joy to return to Hampstead Theatre last week for its 60th anniversary production of Harold Pinterâs
The Dumb Waiter directed by Alice Hamilton.
Two casts underwent separate rehearsal processes starting in February, but they were not, until early December, able to open the show.
I love the fact that Hamilton was chosen to direct this production because, at 31, she is the same age James Roose Evans was when, in 1960, he premiered Pinterâs extraordinary one-act play in a church hall as part of the Hampstead Theatre Club.