The Birthday Party (1957) and The Dumb Waiter (1957) are plays written by whom?
The Dumb Waiter The Dumb Waiter The Dumb Waiter is a one-act play by Harold Pinter written in 1957. "Small but perfectly formed, "The Dumb Waiter" might be considered the best of Harold Pinter's early plays, more consistent than "The Birthday Party" and sharper than "The Caretaker". It combines the classic characteristics of early Pinter – a paucity of information and an atmosphere of menace, working-class small-talk in a claustrophobic setting – with an oblique but palpable political edge and, in so doing, can be seen as containing the germ of Pinter's entire dramatic oeuvre". ""The Dumb Waiter" is Pinter distilled – the
1957 Birthday Honours 1957 Birthday Honours The Queen's Birthday Honours 1957 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The Queen, and were published on 4 June 1957 for the United Kingdom and Colonies, Australia, New Zealand, and to members of the British Armed Forces in recognition of distinguished and gallant services in the Operations in the Near East, October–December 1956. The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before