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Harold Pinter s one-act play, which typifies many of the themes that would go on to define his work, has a rich history at the Hampstead. Its UK premiere in 1960 was an early and crucial success for the venue - and the playwright - under founding artistic director James Roose-Evans.
Sixty years on it takes on renewed significance as it reopens the venue from its pandemic-induced hibernation. Originally scheduled to play back in March, it has been re-rehearsed, recast, and runs in an auditorium that features photos of Hampstead s previous productions draped over the 50 percent of unused seats. A two-hander running under an hour, it also happens to be pretty much the ideal play for these socially distanced times. Though even Pinter couldn t have foreseen that.
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There is an âamusing storyâ about the first performance of The Dumb Waiter at the Hampstead Theatre Club in 1960, according to its director, James Roose-Evans. The run was packed out, he remembers, despite the disaster of Harold Pinterâs second play, The Birthday Party, which was cancelled after a week. But though this third play was a sensation, Roose-Evans says that âthere were all these very smart people arguing about what it was about â what the play meantâ.
We know better now not to expect clearcut motivations or meanings from this tight two-hander about hitmen waiting for their next job, and its 60th anniversary production at the same (renamed) venue seems to accentuate its deliberate enigmas.