The Dumb Waiter by Harold PinterMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Disclosure:
This piece of Absurd Theater was an Integral piece in the Curriculum of the University, It was under the Subject of the Theater of Absurd, I own a Paperback of it with the Features above.
My Plot:
The Dumb Waiter is again one of the master piece of Harold Pinter the leading dramatist of the Theater of Absurd, The Play was all about a Two Hit Men, Ben and Gus, Ben is the Senior of the Gang and Gus is a Beginner to the Gang team, They were Hired to Kill someone, the One Act play goes in the Following, Ben reading the Newspaper and spending his time for the victim to come, Gus is making some modification on his shoes, Ben sometimes reads to his friend from the Newspaper and than all of a sudden they make a verbal riot about the Semantic of the Kettle whether it's "Light" or "Put on" the Kettle, This meaningless conversation shows the Absurdity of Humans in the Pinter Theater, after a while a dumb waiter who delivers occasional food order, The Two Characters wants to get rid of him and Gus gets out, After coming back Ben was ready to kill his friend which was his task to perform.
Positive and Negative Aspects:
Speaking of Theater of Absurd It's very hard to get a meaning from the whole play, the Writer was intended to make language empty from meaning, It was a hard attempt to do so, Speaking of positives the play writer was really professional to make a One Act play with a meaningless subject, From this Meaningless the writer shows the Aspect that there is no use from the Language nor from the Human beings themselves, everything was useless and meaningless. Besides, the setting was quite simple showing that there is no need to make such complications.
Concerning the Negatives, It was so much heavy to read all day a meaningless play, Besides I already make idea of How the Absurd Theater was making itself.
My Personal Reaction:
Reading the Theater of Absurd was something that puts you against the time and meaning. the whole play was just some small events of a two hit men waiting for the right moment to kill at the same time expressing the Useless nature of How Human begin to show up. It was like making two Punches at the same face without taking into consideration the Intentions of theses Punches. Anyway I could not say that I enjoy the Play but I would rather say that I grasp the meaning of the Writers Intentions.
Recommendations:
I would recommend this Play to those cold blooded persons, It is absurd to read the Theater of Absurd, That's How I say it, However I would recommend it to those who want to explore the techniques of this Genre of Theater for some Futuristic works. Anyway those people will get in touch with it.
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