The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter | Full Performance
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- '★★★★★'
'Perfectly cast'
'Claustrophobic and intense'
The Dumb Waiter
Written by Harold Pinter
Directed by Faye Hatch
Cast
Ben | Dexter Whitehead
Gus | Christopher Commander
Recorded on the final night of the run (06.05.23)
As a sri lankan literature student this should be very helpful for us. Thnk u very much
You're most welcome! I hope it can be of use to you. If you have any questions, you're more than welcome to ask them.
@@ChristopherCommander ♥️
Yeah same
Very helpful for me too
"I know the place.
It is true.
Everything we do
Corrects the space
Between death and me
And you."
{-Harold Pinter}
What a beautifully morbid quote.
Actually addressed to his wife Lady Antonia Fraser, who loved it.
This one is verry helpful for gave an idea about this play
Have to perform this tommorow for a GSCE exam, haha. Your performance helped me portray my charavter (gus) even more and i loved your portrayal of the character, thanks
Thank you so much! I hope the exam went well :)
I was literally saying today about how gutted I was that I missed this after seeing a synopsis. So glad this recording exists!
I'm so glad you found it! Hope you enjoy.
We are looking to perform this next year so to be able to watch this was amazing! Thank you
That’s wonderful. Good luck with the production! I hope you enjoyed seeing what we did with the text.
Hi, I would like to let you know that I got the part of Ben in our production of this next year at the quay theatre in Sudbury Suffolk, watching this gave me a huge helping hand!! Thank you Clive, Clive
Watching this right now. You did an amazing job 👏👏
That was brilliant. Studying Pinter at the moment and actually performing some of this play. Thanks so much for sharing x
That's excellent to hear. I hope your studies go well and hope you enjoyed our take on the show.
I did. Thanks do much.Its fabulous.
Great job on this! Love the set design.
@@darkkera Thank you so much, I shall pass your love onto the set crew!
Great performance! Where was this shot?
Thank you so much! It was recorded at Sutton Arts Theatre in Sutton Coldfield, England.
great bro!....only 3 days to ma english literature exam...this will help me so much!😍
I hope it goes well!
Great acting! I read this play yesterday for the first time. There's a couple of things I might be missing, but the most important is the end. Can anybody tell me what you think happened in the end? I'm not catching it.
That is the absolutely facisnating thing about the piece. There isn't one answer. What's fun for us in the rehearsal room, is having to answer these exact same questions, to inform what we do on stage. We toyed a lot with the idea that they are in a form of purgatory, redoing this over and over again, hence why certain line readings hint to noticing things are not quite what they seem 'I never noticed it before' etc. In answer to your question, we made a concious choice to not tell each other what we thought happened. It kept the show fresh for us each night. Did this verson of Ben shoot Gus? That's up for the audience to decide. What do you think?
@@ChristopherCommander thanks for replying. I've been reading some more info on the web and most people thought exactly the same as you. I find it hard to decide what the end of it is but I like the fact that many possibilities can be taken into account.
@@choaddy32❤
reading a newspaper? Seems like ages ago.
FGS geron wi it
Each pause is meticulously worked out within Pinter's script. A play that seems to be about nothing, under the surface is a fascinating insight into the human psyche.
Thank you. Very instructional on how not to act.
One of the most curious things about Pinter is how precise he is in his scripts. It's almost a separate theatre language, with the use of subtext and staging. Understandably it can go over a lot of people's heads. Everything is very carefully planned out, and if an audience doesn't pay close attention, this will miss a lot of the genius of Pinter.
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Understandably Pinter isn't to everyone's taste. A lot of people miss the subtleties and genius of his plays. It took a long time in rehearsal to understand some of them ourselves, we spend a lot of time researching, playing with ideas, and getting our head around the complexities of the piece. The wonderful dark undertones, the slow build of tension, the uneasy world these two characters live in and what Pinter was saying politically while writing this in the late 1950's.
Thank you for your performance. Definitely helped with my current uni module!
So glad to hear it @@sowohs . Hopefully the module went well.