The Dumb Waiter (UK premiere: Hampstead Theatre Club-Royal Court) (1960)

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The Dumb Waiter (1957)

Multi-part Production	The Room and The Dumb Waiter
Date from	21 January 1960
Date to	March 1960
No of Performances	Unknown
Language	English

Venues

Hampstead Theatre (Est. 1959)

21-Jan-1960

Royal Court Downstairs (Est. 1870)

08-Mar-1960

Linked Productions

The Room (Hampstead Theatre Club-Royal Court) (1960)

Notes:

Linked People

James Roose-Evans (1927)

Creative | Director

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Michael Young

Creative | Set Decoration

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Donald Hindle

Creative | Lighting Designer

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Gordon Crowne

Technical | Stage Manager

For the Hampstead.

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Chris Wangler

Technical | Stage Manager

For the Hampstead.

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Linked Organisations

No Linked organisations have been added to this production record yet.

Characters

Gus (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: George Tovey (1914 - 1982)

Ben (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Nicholas Selby (1925 - 2010)

Linked Awards

No award have been added to this production record yet.

Resources

The British Library Manuscript Collections. Pinter Archive. ’Book 2’ (Pinter’s scrapbook); April 1960-Oct. 1961. Add MS 88880/8/2 (Paper-based)

Type: Archival holding

External Link: https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb58-addms88880/addms88880/8/2

Pinter’s scrapbook contains the programme for this event and reviews of the production from The Sunday Times, The Observer, New Statesman, The Times, The Spectator, The Financial Times, The Stage, The Telegraph, The Express and Encore.

Theatre programme (front) (Image)

Type: Theatre programme

Sources

The Room and The Dumb Waiter at the Hampstead Theatre Production Programme

The British Library Modern Manuscripts, The Harold Pinter Archive, Add MS 88880/8/1, ff 108-110

Library archive

The Room and The Dumb Waiter at the Royal Court Theatre Production Programme

Hofstra University Library Special Collections Department, Pinter Collection Box 1, in file folder entitled 'Program - "Dumb Waiter" and "The Room" - plays by Harold Pinter', no ff

Library archive