The Room
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- For the 2003 Tommy Wiseau film, see The Room (film)
The Room has strong ties to The Birthday Party, also by Harold Pinter. Both plays take place in a derelict boarding house which becomes the scene of a visitation. In The Room, a blind black man suddenly arrives to deliver a mysterious message.
The Room is invested with the elements that make Pinter's work unique: the disturbing familiarity of the dialogue, the subtle characterization, the compulsive power that can be by turns funny, moving, and menacing.
The Room was first presented at the Hampstead Theatre Club on January 21, 1960 with the following cast:
[edit] Original Cast
- Bert Hudd - Howard Lang
- Rose - Vivien Merchant
- Mr. Kidd - Henry Woolf
- Mr. Sands - John Rees
- Mrs. Sands - Auriol Smith
- Riley - Thomas Baptiste
[edit] External links
| The Plays of Harold Pinter |
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| Plays : Ashes to Ashes, The Basement, Betrayal, The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, Celebration, The Collection, The Dumb Waiter, The Dwarfs, Family Voices, The Homecoming, The Hothouse, A Kind of Alaska, Landscape, The Lover, Moonlight, Monologue, Mountain Language, A Night Out, Night School, No Man's Land, Old Times, One for the Road, Party Time, Remembrance of Things Past (with Di Trevis), The Room, Silence, A Slight Ache, Tea Party, Victoria Station, Voices (with James Clarke) Sketches : Apart from That, Applicant, The Black and White, Dialogue for Three, Interview, Last to Go, The New World Order, Night, Precisely, Press Conference, Request Stop, Special Offer, That's All, That's Your Trouble, Trouble in the Works |
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