num_pages: 121
description: Jacket In all of Pinter's plays, seemingly ordinary events become charged with profound, if elusive, meaning, haunting pathos, and wild comedy. In The Caretaker, a tramp finds lodging in the derelict house of two brothers; in The Dumbwaiter, a pair of gunmen wait for the kill in a decayed lodging house. Harold Pinter gradually exposes the inner strains and fear of his characters, alternating hilarity and character to create and almost unbearable edge of tension.
language: English
title: The Caretaker and the Dumb Waiter
titlecomplete: The Caretaker and the Dumb Waiter
genres: 20th Century, Theatre, Drama, Plays, Literature, Classics, British Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 601
publisher: Grove Press.