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After hearing his older sister speak of her readers for a couple of years, our youngest thought the official title of the series was "Dumb Old Dick and Jane...
...statement by George Washington: "If Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and, dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter." In fact, Washington was exhorting his ragged men not to mutiny against the Government in disgust because they had not been paid...
...before audiences averaging 20 people. But Pinter's drab and isolated rooms, surrounded by the menace of the unknown and the uncontrollable, gradually seemed less obscure. The Birthday Party was revived with great success, and was also performed on commercial TV. Two one-acters, The Room and The Dumb Waiter, played for eight weeks in a limited run. The Caretaker was the London drama critics' choice as the best play of last season...
Chapman directed the play for its events, and never let the unfolding of his characters obscure or delay the story itself. His craftsmanship in designing the luminescent dumb show in which two characters are done away with illustrates this concern for action as such...
...couldn't care less about whether there is room at the top. He is a vague and vagrant first person singular who drifts through a colloid of far-out characters that are his (and his plot's) only visible means of support. His mate is a dim, dumb, sensible girl, who pulls up his socks from time to time and does her best to dry his tears of existential anguish...