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The Caretaker
by Harold Pinter
directed by James Gelter
July 10, 11, 12 - July 17, 18, 19 - July 23, 24, 25
Thursday, Friday, Saturday performances at 7:30 pm - Sunday performances at 2 pm
When the quiet Aston brings an eccentric drifter home to his lowly flat, it results in knife threats, interior decorating schemes, and a broken Buddha in this play from one of the 20th century's greatest playwrights.
CAST
Davis....................Geof Dolman
Aston...................Leo Mousseau
Mick.......................James Gelter
stage managed by Brenda Seitz
Harold Pinter's The Caretaker premiered in 1960 and quickly established itself as a landmark work of 20th-century drama, cementing Pinter's reputation as a master of the \"comedy of menace.\" The play was first performed at the Arts Theatre in London and transferred to the West End, where it ran for over a year, earning Pinter the Evening Standard Drama Award. Its initial success was followed by a 1963 film, and it has since been translated into numerous languages and performed worldwide, becoming a staple of the modern theatrical canon. The play is celebrated for its groundbreaking use of subtext, ambiguous dialogue, and the \"Pinter pause,\" which create an atmosphere of simmering tension and psychological realism that continues to challenge and captivate audiences more than six decades after its debut.
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The Caretaker premieres on April 27 at the Arts Theatre Club in London, presented by the Arts Theatre Club before transferring to the Duchess Theatre in the West End on May 30. The production receives strong reviews and establishes Pinter as a major theatrical voice. The play runs for over a year, closing after 444 performances. It receives the Evening Standard Award for best play of 1960. The Daily Herald notes the premiere performance ended in \"Tumultuous chaos. Twelve curtain calls.\"
Original Cast:
Donald Pleasence as Davies
Peter Woodthorpe as Aston
Alan Bates as Mick
Director: Donald McWhinnie
1963
Pinter adapts his play for the screen, creating one of the most faithful and cinematically successful transfers of his work. The film (also released under the title The Guest in some markets) preserves the claustrophobic atmosphere of the original while opening up the action slightly beyond the single room. Critics praise the performances, particularly Pleasence's \"singularly vile tramp\" and Shaw's \"hypnotic\" portrayal of Aston. The Monthly Film Bulletin calls it \"a very commendable example of the filmed play.\" Pleasence and Shaw would both go on to play villains in the James Bond franchise, with Shaw playing Red Grant in From Russia with Love and Pleasence portraying Blofeld in You Only Live Twice.
Film Cast:
Donald Pleasence as Davies
Robert Shaw as Aston
Alan Bates as Mick
Director: Clive Donner
1972
The play is revived at the Mermaid Theatre in London. This vision is noted for its lighter, more humorous approach to the script. Leonard Rossiter, who understudied Pleasence in the original production, is noted for \"every look, every gesture, reveal[ing] the comical agony of unease in a bullying nature stranded without leverage.\" Director Christopher Morahan will return to the play forty years later for another memorable production.
1972 Cast:
Leonard Rossiter as Davies
Jeremy Kemp as Aston
John Hurt as Mick
Director: Christopher Morahan
1980
The National Theatre mounts a notable production that features two casts: The first, an all-white cast, followed by an all-black cast. While many applaud the National for producing a show with an all-black cast, others find this particular piece of material an awkward fit, due to the central character's racial ignorance. It is the white cast that films a made-for-TV movie in 1981. Warren Mitchell is nominated for an Olivier Award. Jonathan Pryce will win two Oliviers and two Tonys before taking part in another production of The Caretaker .
White Cast:
Warren Mitchell as Davies
Kenneth Cranham as Aston
Jonathan Pryce as Mick
Black Cast:
Norman Beaton as Davies
Oscar James as Aston
Troy Foster as Mick
Director: Kenneth Ives
1991
Harold Pinter himself directs this revival to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the play's debut. The original Davies, Donald Pleasence, returns, saying, \"I'm not so energetic as I was then and Davies is an old man who jumps about a lot. On the other hand, I am the right age now. I had to pretend to be old then, and that was an added burden. Now I just play a man who happens to be old.\" The production tours various UK venues, including Newcastle, Birmingham, Bradford, Sheffield, Guildford, and Bath, before a run at the Comedy Theatre in London.
1991 Cast:
Donald Pleasence as Davies
Colin Firth as Aston
Peter Howitt as Mick
Director: Harold Pinter
2000
The Comedy Theatre (later renamed the Harold Pinter Theatre) produces a revival most notable for the performance of Michael Gambon as Davies, who plays the role as a \"Dickensian grotesque.\" Gambon receives an Olivier nomination for Best Actor, and Douglas Hodge for Best Supporting Actor.
2000 Cast:
Michael Gambon as Davies
Douglas Hodge as Aston
Rupert Graves as Mick
Director: Patrick Marber
2003
The largest, most expensive revival of the show opens in October at the Roundabout Theatre Company, on Broadway. The reviews, however, are mixed. The stage is too big to establish the needed claustrophobia. Though Patrick Stewart and Kyle MacLachlan are highly famous, respected actors, some critics feel neither man is a good fit for such low-class, low-status characters. Many praise Aidan Gillen for his nasty, manipulative portrayal of Mick. Years later, Gillen becomes known for his master manipulator, Little Finger, in Game of Thrones.
2003 Cast:
Patrick Stewart as Davies
Kyle MacLachlan as Aston
Aidan Gillen as Mick
Director: David Jones
2009
Following Pinter's death in 2008, a major revival directed by Christopher Morahan (returning to the play after nearly four decades) opens at Liverpool's Everyman Theatre before transferring to London's Trafalgar Studios the next year. This production also sees the return of Jonathan Pryce, who, after playing Mick in the 1980 production, now plays Davies. The production moves to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2012.
2009 Cast:
Jonathan Pryce as Davies
Peter McDonald as Aston (Liverpool & London)
Alan Cox as Aston (Brooklyn)
Tom Brooke as Mick (Liverpool)
Sam Spruell as Mick (London)
Alex Hassell as Mick (Brooklyn)
Director: Christopher Morahan
2016
A major London revival runs from March to May at The Old Vic, directed by Artistic Director Matthew Warchus, who approaches the show as a comedy, with Timothy Spall receiving praise for his vaudeville slapstick approach to Davies. Daniel Mays is also celebrated for his \"pitch-perfect\" portrayal of Aston.
2016 Cast:
Timothy Spall as Davies
Daniel Mays as Aston
George MacKay as Mick
Director: Matthew Warchus
A History of The Caretaker
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by Elayne Clift
EC: The Caretaker seems to have multiple themes, including alienation, power, human relations, deception, loneliness, and isolation. What do you think the major themes are?
JG: Loneliness. We are in a time when a record number of men live alone and experience isolation because there’s a lack of connection to others, given the economic, social, and political issues we’re experiencing. That's what drew me to this play.
EC: You also think that much of what Harold Pinter is dealing with in The Caretaker relates to a post-war generation of men who were traumatized by World War II.
JG: Yes, particularly in the 60s when they were trying to understand the emerging and socially constructed context for men. You have an established generation of men returned from war who have closed themselves off emotionally, and an emerging generation who suffered challenging childhoods and now seek to reject socially constructed expectations so that they can connect on a human level.
EC: The three characters in the play, which you call a comic tragedy, illuminate many of the issues and challenges that men like that experienced. Talk about the characters and how they interact with each other.
JG: There are two brothers in the play, Aston and Mick. The other character is Davies, who is older than the brothers and, at the outset, a stranger to them. He can be unpleasant and seems to have an incipient streak of violence. Aston is quiet and disconnected partly because he’s been living alone for some time and he wants to connect with others. Mick, who owns the apartment but doesn’t live there, has a fantasy of what he would like the apartment to look like. Aston welcomes Davis into his home without hesitation, while Mick treats the newcomer with extreme suspicion.
EC: The plot of the play is simple, but what takes place in the apartment is thought-provoking in terms of relationships, communication, and self-awareness.
JG: Yes, that’s true. Aston has brought Davies, a guy he’s just met, to the flat because he has nowhere to stay. Mick arrives at the flat and discovers that Aston has brought Davies into the apartment. He reacts with suspicion and displeasure and seems to be controlling as he asks a lot of questions about what’s going on. As the play progresses, Davies appears to become a pawn in a game being played by the two brothers, though the object of the game is never made clear.
EC: How does the dialogue reveal and move the story along?
JG: Critics often say that Pinter’s language is repetitive and at times nonsensical. But to me, the dialogue is minimal, natural and understandable. The characters speak more naturally than they do in other plays. These are men who are dealing with mental health issues and other challenges, so the dialogue Pinter uses helps the audience understand them better through their often-clipped dialogue and long, tangent-filled monologues.
EC: Some critics have called the play a part of the genre known as Absurdist drama. Do you agree?
JG: No, I don’t. These are real men in a real setting, not bizarre characters in trash cans – like Beckett's Endgame, for example. But nothing happens in the play that couldn’t really happen, so it’s not absurdist. It’s related to Pinter’s realist view of life and lives – a speciality that made him develop his own genre, for which he is known.
EC: Let’s consider Pinter as a playwright. He wrote 29 plays and won a Nobel Prize for his work.
JG: Yes, and he was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a career that spanned 50 years. Dialogue is very important in his plays and has been considered the key to his originality. His characters speak colloquially and in a disjointed way that allows for resonant silences. His technique allows audiences to eavesdrop on mundane conversations that derive from power struggles between three lost souls.
EC: You discovered Pinter when you were very young. How did that happen?
JG: I first started reading Pinter as a teenager and found his style to be right up my alley. I enjoy his use of tension and dark humor. My appreciation deepened when I had a chance to act in his play The Dumb Waiter some years ago. Geof Dolman, who plays Davies, and I first read this script together in early 2020, and we have been hoping to perform together since then.
EC: You are both a director and an actor, and you’re in this play. What is that like?
JG: Doing both jobs simultaneously is challenging, to be sure, and not often a best practice. I certainly wouldn’t direct myself in a lead role! But in this case, I’m playing Mick, who has far less stage time than the other two characters. I find acting alongside my actors is my most effective way of directing them. This comes from my career directing primarily children and amateurs. It’s leading by example. I could spend ages talking to actors about what style I’d like them to adopt and ask them to make lots of choices, or I can just jump up on stage with them, show them the style, and make choices of my own for them to consider.
EC: This is a play about the push-pull of compassion and contempt and the end is heartbreaking. What do you hope the audience will leave with having seen the play?
JG: This is an intergenerational play that includes tensions as well as small gestures of kindness, so I hope people will have empathy for people from different classes and experiences, so they can realize their worth in terms of their economic contributions and social status. I think Pinter wanted audiences to consider the human condition and to consider how our different environments shape our identity and relationships.