Mark Rylance as Dr Semmelweis battling Maternal Mortality "We are the doctors of the modern age. We are marching into battle."A supporter of Dr Semmelweis Amanda Wilkin as Maria Semmelweis…
Pinter and Beckett at the Crease "Do you subscribe to nominative determinism? "Pinter Andrew Lancel as Harold Pinter and Stephen Tomlinson as Samuel Beckett (Photo: Pamela Raith) Stumped is the…
The Dumb Waiter is a quintessential early Pinter play from 1960, one that feels almost Beckettian if not absurdist. It is set in a room, a situation with bags of sinister mystery with just two players. I always think of what the French writer Jean Anouilh said about Waiting for Godot on seeing Beckett's play for the first time in Paris in 1953. "Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful."