Found it! Thanks for the upload. How silly of the BBC to announce it as a play about two assassins. Much of its power comes from the onlooker's gradual realisation that that is what they are.
Saw this at the trafalger with Lee Evans and Jason Issacs and must admit I preferred the stage version, think its one of those plays that needs the audience there. The day I went to see it they were filming it for the theatre archives, I would love to see it on here.
Yes, In Bruges recalls The Dumb Waiter as The Lonesome West recalls True West. Martin McDonagh wrote In Bruges and Lonesome West as "tips of the hat" to Pinter and Shepard.
Thanks for posting this. I have tickets to see this soon and it's nice to have a preview; sort of like reading the Cliff's Notes in advance to create an opportunity for a more insightful theater going experience.
Hey, thanks for the post! I need this video in one piece for a lecture and wanted to send you a pm; but couldn't make it. Could you please upload it in one piece? Thanks in advance, cheers
I recomend to all those in the UK atthe moment to try and check our Director Nico Vaccari's version of this play at lincoln Drill hall and Hodgesock priory. I have never seen a more intense version.
Thank you for posting this! I am reading this play for an English class and it is much easier to understand if I can watch the action. I'm not the only one who thinks this is just like the plot to In Bruges am I?
No, you're not. And if you read up on it you'll find Martin McDonagh not only acknowledges this play as inspiration but also uses these characters names in his screenplay.
is there any well rendered and whole version of this? if i may ask so with my kindest intentions possible after saying thank you for this one very heartily
Superb acting, absolutely amazing. But whoever did the lighting for the BBC in those days should have been taken out of the back of BBC Television Centre at Shepherd's Bush and shot, or possibly dropped off the top floor.
Pretty good performances. However, they missed most of the humor in the piece. It's not a tragedy, but almost a comedy - a black comedy, to be sure. And, with all respect to Fantasy9Knighht, the video quality is terrible.
I was laughing often throughout this performance. Not sure that playing for laughs would have been a good idea - the humour doesn't have to be signalled, it's just there.
Found it! Thanks for the upload. How silly of the BBC to announce it as a play about two assassins. Much of its power comes from the onlooker's gradual realisation that that is what they are.
Yes. It kind of takes away the tension somewhat. Even though i know this play pretty well of old, I wish he hadn't said it.
That was a pretty tin-eared thing for them to announce.
Have to perform this tomorrow as Ben, can't wait!
Pinter's finest one-act play and said to be the inspiration for Reservoir Dogs....
Thank you very much for uploading this.
Dries Vanc u r welcome
I can only imagine that being teacher of literature must be the best job in the world.
Saw this at the trafalger with Lee Evans and Jason Issacs and must admit I preferred the stage version, think its one of those plays that needs the audience there. The day I went to see it they were filming it for the theatre archives, I would love to see it on here.
Yes, In Bruges recalls The Dumb Waiter as The Lonesome West recalls True West. Martin McDonagh wrote In Bruges and Lonesome West as "tips of the hat" to Pinter and Shepard.
Thanks for posting this. I have tickets to see this soon and it's nice to have a preview; sort of like reading the Cliff's Notes in advance to create an opportunity for a more insightful theater going experience.
what about reading the actual play?
'In Bruges' references this by having the two protagonists use the nicknames Cranham and Blakely when they check into the hotel.
Jim Morrison was in the school play of The Dumb Waiter @ Florida State.... He played Gus I believe
Hi and thanks very much for posting! This version was filmed in 1985, and the actors are Kenneth Cranham (Gus) and Colin Blakely (Ben).
Doing this play for drama its so cool xx
Hey, thanks for the post! I need this video in one piece for a lecture and wanted to send you a pm; but couldn't make it. Could you please upload it in one piece? Thanks in advance, cheers
I recomend to all those in the UK atthe moment to try and check our Director Nico Vaccari's version of this play at lincoln Drill hall and Hodgesock priory. I have never seen a more intense version.
Nailed it
Other people are a problem, aren't they? The greatest philosophers/thinkers have often found other people "hard to live with".
Tut tut Wikipedia in the description. Thx for the vid(s) :D
@rosieknitter you are welcome, and yes it looks like Bruges plot
Nice.
Thank you for posting this! I am reading this play for an English class and it is much easier to understand if I can watch the action.
I'm not the only one who thinks this is just like the plot to In Bruges am I?
A/L exams?
in bruge' do you think in bruge' was influenced by this play
Yes! There are specific references for those who know the Pinter eg to Blakely/ Cranham
shout out to distance learning
BRILLIANT BRILLIANT PINTER -
No, you're not. And if you read up on it you'll find Martin McDonagh not only acknowledges this play as inspiration but also uses these characters names in his screenplay.
same plot, different year. ;)
Hi and thank you so much for posting this! Could you please send me the whole uncut play? Thanks!
wl k Please let me know once you find it. I know a good charity that you can donate it to.
can anyone tell me what kind of accent the guy playing Gus is using??
Gus: Cockney (London)
Ben: Northern Irish
You are welcome everyone, and why the flame war on the comments. I believe who watches this are men not children, so please keep the comments clean (:
is there any well rendered and whole version of this? if i may ask so with my kindest intentions possible after saying thank you for this one very heartily
There is somewhere but I can't remember where. They showed it on BBC4 again a few years ago.
Superb acting, absolutely amazing. But whoever did the lighting for the BBC in those days should have been taken out of the back of BBC Television Centre at Shepherd's Bush and shot, or possibly dropped off the top floor.
Best treated like a radio play.
@jaci999 yes it is far better to see a play on the stage
First thing I thought when I saw it. If you filtered In Bruges through absurdism.
I saw the original broadcast. I thought girl killing the cat was one of the funniest things I'd ever heard. I suppose I am a bad person.
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Pretty good performances. However, they missed most of the humor in the piece. It's not a tragedy, but almost a comedy - a black comedy, to be sure. And, with all respect to Fantasy9Knighht, the video quality is terrible.
I was laughing often throughout this performance. Not sure that playing for laughs would have been a good idea - the humour doesn't have to be signalled, it's just there.
ahhaahhahahahahaha
I can't tell if this poorly acted, poorly directed or just poorly edited.
Acting and directing are excellent IMO.
@@ajs41 lol
Too intellectual for BBC in 2023…… Depressing sate of affairs.