The Dumb Waiter is a one-act play by Harold Pinter written in 1957.
Actors in The Dumb Waiter as presented by Stairwell Theater in 2019
Harold Pinter was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964) and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1971), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Trial (1993) and Sleuth (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television and film productions of his own and others' works.
Pinter in 2005
Pinter's house in Worthing, 1962–64
Pinter in 1962
Study of Pinter by Reginald Gray, 2007. (New Statesman, 12 January 2009)