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The Dumb Waiter ‘We send him up all we’ve got and he’s not satisfied. No, honest, THE it’s enough to make the cat laugh’ Ben and Gus are seasoned hitmen awaiting details of their next target in the basement of a supposedly abandoned cafe. DUMB When the dumbwaiter begins sending them mysterious food orders, the killers’ waiting game starts to unravel. Daniel Mays and David Thewlis star in Harold Pinter’s WAITER darkly funny, insidiously menacing The Dumb Waiter. A play by HAROLD PINTER An Old Vic production | 07–10 Jul 2021 Daniel Mays includes: I’m Thinking Ashes to Ashes. He directed End). Television includes: Gus of Ending Things, Rare 27 plays including: Exiles, Unprecedented, Sitting, Theatre includes: Beasts, Guest of Honour, Oleanna, Celebration, The Talking Heads. Jeremy The Caretaker (The Old Eternal Beauty, The Mercy, Room. Awards include the Herrin was previously Artistic Vic); The Red Lion (National Wonder Woman, The Theory Nobel Prize for Literature, Director of Headlong, Deputy Theatre); Mojo (West End); of Everything, Legend, the Companion of Honour Artistic Director of the Royal The Same Deep Water as Anomalisa, Macbeth, for services to Literature, Court and an Associate Me, Trelawny of the Wells, Stonehearst Asylum, The the Legion D’Honneur, the Director at Live Theatre, Moonlight (Donmar); M.A.D Fifth Estate, Zero Theorem, European Theatre Prize, Newcastle upon Tyne. (Bush); Hero, Scarborough, War Horse, The New the Laurence Olivier Award Motortown, The Winterling, World, Kingdom of Heaven, and the Molière D’Honneur Hyemi Shin Ladybird (Royal Court). Film The Boy in the Striped for lifetime achievement. Set & Costume includes: 1917, Fisherman’s Pyjamas, Besieged, The Big In 1999, he was made a Theatre includes: The End of Friends, Swimming with Men, Lebowski, Seven Years in Companion of Literature Eddy (Unicorn Theatre); The Rogue One: A Star Wars Tibet, Naked, Harry Potter by the Royal Society of Seagull, Herons, Morning, Story, The Limehouse Golem, Series. Television includes: Literature. Desire Under the Elms, A Infiltrator, Dad’s Army, Nanny Landscapers, Human Midsummer Night’s Dream, McPhee and the Big Bang, Resources, Barkskins, Big Jeremy Herrin Secret Theatre show 1, 2, 4, Vera Drake, Atonement, Red Mouth, The Feed, Fargo, An Director 5, 6, 7 (Lyric Hammersmith); Riding, The Bank Job, Made Inspector Calls, The Street II, Theatre includes: All My Once in a Lifetime, Dirty in Dagenham. Television Endgame, Dandelion Dead, Sons (The Old Vic); The Butterfly, Sizwe Banzi is includes: Des, Code 404, Prime Suspect. Visit, The Plough and the Dead (Young Vic); The Temple, Mother’s Day, Do Stars; (National Theatre) Brink (Orange Tree); Made Not Disturb, Good Omens, People, Places and Things Visible (The Yard); He Wore Against the Law, Born to Kill, CREATIVE TEAM (National Theatre/Headlong/ a Red Hat, Playland (New Guerrilla, Line of Duty, Mrs West End/UK tour/New Perspectives Theatre). Biggs, The Great Fire, Public Harold Pinter York); This House (National Dance includes: New Work Enemies, Funland, Plus One, Writer Theatre/Chichester/West New Music (Royal Ballet); White Girl, Ashes to Ashes, Harold Pinter was born in End); Labour of Love — Life’s Witness (ROH/Linbury The Street. London in 1930. He lived Olivier Award for Best Studio Theatre); Unearth with Antonia Fraser from Comedy, The Nether, That (National Ballet of Canada); David Thewlis 1975 until his death on Face, South Downs, Absent The Kreutzer Sonata (Ballet Ben Christmas Eve 2008 (they Friends (West End); Wolf Moscow); Swan Lake/Loch Theatre includes: The were married in 1980). Hall, Bring Up the Bodies na hEala — Irish Times Children’s Monologues, Harold Pinter wrote 29 plays (RSC/West End/Broadway); Award for Best Costume Ice Cream (Royal Court); including: The Birthday Party, Junkyard, The Absence of (Dublin Theatre Festival/ Anomalisa (Royce Hall, The Dumb Waiter, A Slight War, The Nether, Observe Sadler’s Wells). Opera LA); The Sea (National Ache, The Hothouse, The the Sons of Ulster..., The includes: La Damnation Theatre); Buddy Holly Caretaker, The Collection, House They Grew Up In de Faust (Glyndebourne at the Regal (New Vic); The Lover, The Homecoming, (Headlong); The Tempest Opera); The Skating Ruffian on the Stairs, The Old Times, No Man’s Land, (Shakespeare’s Globe); Rink (Garsington Opera); Woolley (Farnham Theatre); Betrayal, A Kind of Alaska, Almost Famous (The The Return of Ulysses The Lady and the Clarinet One For The Road, The New Old Globe); Noises Off (ROH/Roundhouse). (Kingshead Theatre). Film World Order, Moonlight, (Lyric Hammersmith/West Prema Mehta Philadelphia Story, Cloaca, Master Builder, Dr. Seuss’s Camera Operators Lighting Hamlet (The Old Vic); Noises The Lorax, The Hairy Ape, Josh Reeves* Theatre credits include: Off (The Old Vic/West End), Future Conditional (The Scott Nolan The Comeback, A Day The Winslow Boy (The Old Vic); Girl from the North Jack Sheffield in the Death of Joe Egg Old Vic/Broadway); This Is Country (The Old Vic/West Vision Mixing (West End); The Winter’s Our Youth, Passion Play, End); The Divide (The Old James Percival* Tale (RSC); Hymn Birdsong, On an Average Vic/EIF). Film includes: The Sound and (Almeida); Swive [Elizabeth], Day, Lobby Hero, Someone Kid Who Would Be King, Broadcast Technician Bartholomew Fair, Richard Who’ll Watch Over Me, Up Emma (Working Title Films). Sam Palmer II (Shakespeare’s Globe); for Grabs, Twelfth Night, My Sound No.1 A History of Water in the One and Only (West End); Samantha Mullis Middle East, Superhoe Macbeth, A Day in the Death CAST Stage Crew (Royal Court); Things of Dry of Joe Egg, King Lear (West Gus Keith Hayes Hours (Young Vic); Fame End/Broadway); The Shape Daniel Mays Production Manager (UK tour/Peacock Theatre); of Things, Electra, The Ben Dominic Fraser* East is East (Northern Stage/ Seagull (Broadway); Mother David Thewlis Deputy Production Nottingham Playhouse); of Him (Park); A Christmas Manager Chicken Soup (Sheffield Carol (RSC); Shadowlands PRODUCTION Katina Ellis* Crucible); A Passage to India (Chichester); A p o l l o 11 (Rose Writer Deputy Head of Stage (Royal and Derngate/UK Bowl, LA). Harold Pinter Aran Morrison* tour); Love Lies & Taxidermy, Director Stage Chargehand Growth, I Got Superpowers Jessica Ronane Jeremy Herrin Karina Olsen* for My Birthday (Paines CDG Set & Costume Head of Lighting Plough). Prema is Founder of Casting Hyemi Shin Andrew Stuttard* Stage Sight. She is a Trustee For OLD VIC: IN CAMERA Lighting Deputy Head of the Unicorn Theatre and — Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax, Prema Mehta of Lighting an Artistic Associate at the Faith Healer, Three Kings, Sound Avril Cook* Young Vic. Lungs. 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