Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter runs at Hampstead Theatre starring Shane Zaza and Alec Newman - Credit: Helen Maybanks The Dumb Waiter at Hampstead Theatre The set for this 60th anniversary production of Harold Pinter's Beckettian two-hander has stood sentinel over an empty auditorium since March. A cast change and two lockdowns later, and it's a sombre piece to reopen the shuttered venue - to a masked and spaced out audience. The communal theatre experience, and pre-show conversation was inevitably subdued - but we were all just happy to experience an all too short 55 minutes of live theatre.