Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

Age concern | 14 February 2019

Plus: it's hard to know if the central concept of Pinter's A Slight Ache is terrible or brilliant

issue 16 February 2019

  • Pinter Seven

    Harold Pinter Theatre, until 23 February, until 23 February

The Dumb Waiter is a one-act play from 1957 that retains an extraordinary hold over the minds of theatre-goers. It’s set in the basement of a Birmingham restaurant where two Cockney hitmen are preparing to execute an unknown victim. A dumb waiter, or shelf on pulleys, descends from above containing requests for two-course meals.

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