JI: JASON ISAACS  ACTOR

LE: LEE EVANS    ACTOR

HP: HARRY BURTON   DIRECTOR

SF: SONIA FRIEDMAN   PRODUCER

SF: It's about 2 hit men, waiting, in a room, in a basement for their next kill, and they keep on being interrupted, by this Dumb Waiter, this elevator, that, ah, crashes into their room, literally, giving them orders, and, this destroys their um, normality.

JI: Our Director, Harry is, ah, very close to Harold Pinter, spend a lot of time with him, done a lot of workshops with him, and so, you know that you're getting the almost directly from the horses mouth. I think Harold didn't come to rehearsals, ah, mostly I think because we would have been intimidated, but in a way he was there because everything out of Harry's mouth is something that he's involved in working with Harold, so

HB: We went into previews after 15, 16 days of rehearsal, so very intensive work, which is, I think, very, a very well suited way of working to this play which is so concentrated, and whether, where the more detailed the work, the more satisfying the event.

SF: They are so good with each other and they are "Talk and Cheese", I mean sorry it's a cliché, but their very different, and putting them together was a risk, they've never met before, I know that they knew of each others work, but that first day in the rehearsal room, it could have been a disaster, but, NO, they got on well…

HB: Lee Evans is the most natural actor I've ever worked with, but, to see him develop this performance, so that he got the confidence to begin to let go of the Lee Evans that we, that we know, and that he relies on. He's let go of that, I think, which to me makes it much more satisfying, he's not doing his standup, you know, he's really playing a character, in a play.

LE: We started off, it was bad actually, in the fact that, ah, we start to do, we got too many laughs, oh and we had to really, I mean I remember the first night, ah me and Jason were quite giddy, cause we were like "wow, they were laughin at this and then they were laughing at this" and then we had to go look this is ah, lets see if we can get hold of the meat of it and then we just go there's just so many opportunities for Comedy, but you have to keep it so real.

SF: I read the Dumb Waiter as, a play about losing control, and what you do when you loose control, and about Power and the Power base and what happens when you loose Power.

JI: Perfect time now because, I've never bin so scared, I think it's one of the scariest times for me, every lamp post has six cameras on it, for very good reasons, we're scared of Bird Flu, we're scared of Nuclear threat, Biological threat, we're scared of Climate change, all of these things are out of our control, and that's what the plays about.

LE: We live in a climate of slight fear, in particular in London, in the big city, so I think this play, it was written just after World War II, you know, lots of guns were comin into the country, and Oswald Mosely was around taking his anger out on his Jews and I think now it's the same sort of climate, it's really weird.

JI: It's a great first play, if you're the kind who doesn't normaly go, um, this is a fabulous introduction, how gripping and entertaining, ah, an evening in theater can be.