The Caretaker (Lyttleton Theatre) (1980-1981)

The Caretaker (1959)

Date from	6 November 1980 Preview on 6 November. Press night on 11 November
Date to	14 March 1981
No of Performances	38 Confidence Level
Language	English

Venues

National Theatre: Lyttelton Theatre

11-Nov-1980 to 14-Mar-1981

Linked Productions

The Caretaker (Lyttleton Theatre) (1981)

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The Caretaker (1981)

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Linked People

Kenneth Ives (1934 - 2022)

Creative | Director

Eileen Diss (1931)

Creative | Set Designer

Barbara Kidd

Creative | Costume Designer

Mick Hughes (1938 - 2018)

Creative | Lighting Designer

Linked Organisations

Royal National Theatre (Producing & Receiving House | Est. 1963)

South Bank, London SE1 9PX, England

Producer.

Characters

Mick (Age: late twenties, Male)

Aston's brother

Performer: Jonathan Pryce

Aston (Age: early thirties, Male)

Mick's brother

Performer: Kenneth Cranham (1944)

Davies (Age: old, Male)

Described as 'an old man'

Performer: Warren Mitchell (1926 - 2015)

Linked Awards

The Laurence Olivier Award

1981

Best actor in a revival nomination for Warren Mitchell

Resources

No resources have been added to this production record yet.

Sources

Harold Pinter Appointments Diary, 1981

The British Library Modern Manuscripts, The Harold Pinter Archive, Add MS 88880/12/14, no ff

Library archive

Information about final performance taken from entry for March.

Daniel Rosenthal's The National Theatre Story

Daniel Rosenthal, The National Theatre Story (London: Oberon, 2013)

Academic book

Information about opening night and number of performances taken from Rosenthal's unpaginated book, and section for 1980.

National Theatre Archive

http://catalogue.nationaltheatre.org.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Performance&id=477

Theatre archive