The Dumb Waiter
About
Two hit-men. A basement. An assignment. A tragicomic steampunk mystery.
With: Louis Ozawa Changchien*, Stephen Park*
Directed by Andy Pang
Run
October 6, 2011 – November 6, 2011
Thursdays – Saturdays at 8:00pm
Sundays at 2:00pm
Wednesday 10/26 and 11/2 at 8:00pm
Duo Theatre
62 East Fourth Street – btw 2nd/3rd Avenues
(4, 6 train to Bleeker St; F train to 2nd Ave)
SmartTix
Tickets: $25
Previews October 6 – 10: $20
(212) 868-4444
Production Staff
Joseph M. Gourley: Set Designer
Adam Cochran: Sound Designer
Stephen Petrilli: Lighting Designer
Michael G. Chin: Fight Choreography
Charley Layton: Dialect Coach
Olivera Gajic: Costume Designer
Kate Katigbak: Postcard Design
Belén Ferrer: Assistant Stage Manager
Ed Herman: Stage Manager
Reviews
Pinter’s subtlety isn’t easy to perform. Direct the work too reverently and you’ll end up with a boring, turgid mess; play it too lightly and the result is a strangely paced farce. I’m happy to report that in the National Asian American Theatre Company’s production of Pinter’s one act masterpiece The Dumb Waiter, director Andrew Pang makes neither mistake. The resulting production is an excellent one indeed.
(Gregory Wilson: Curtain Up)
Fantastical, funny and slightly disturbing, NAATCO’s The Dumb Waiter is a good aperitif to an evening out, at least something to whet your appetite for more productions by NAATCO.
(Elise McMullen: Show Business Weekly)
The NAATCO production is a great success. I’ve rarely heard this much laughter in a Pinter production, and it admirably was not forced but instead was mined from the text. There is certainly something exciting about seeing this work realized with gusto, and what’s more, it’s part of an enjoyable evening.
(Stephen Cedars: NYTheatre.com)
Photos
(Photographer: William P. Steele)
(Photographer: William P. Steele)
(Photographer: William P. Steele)
(Photographer: William P. Steele)
(Photographer: William P. Steele)
Notes
A short Pinter piece will precede each performance, performed by special guest stars. The “curtain raisers” will include some of Pinter’s best short works, among them:
Trouble in the Works, The Black and White, Request Stop,
Last to Go, Special Offer,
Night, That’s Your Trouble, That’s All, and Dialogue for Three
Performed by Cindy Cheung, Jackie Chung, Joel de la Fuente, Andrew Eisenman, Jennifer Ikeda, Peter Kim, Sue Jean Kim, Ken Leung, Orville Mendoza, Alfredo Narciso, Nicky Paraiso, Kelly Coffield Park, Debargo Sanyal, Jon Norman Schneider, Ching Valdes-Aran, Tiffany Villarin, and James Yaegashi, among others.
Complete curtain raiser schedule and casts HERE
This production is made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
