"Landscape" was written for the stage, but the official theatre censor, the Lord Chamberlain, refused it a licence unless Pinter removed its strong language. The official report read: "The nearer to Beckett, the more portentous Pinter gets. This is a long one-act play without any plot or development ... a lot of useless information about the treatment of beer ... And of course, there have to be the ornamental indecencies." Pinter declined to change his text. The play was first presented as a radio broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 25 April 1968, with Peggy Ashcroft as Beth and Eric Porter as Duff. Theatre censorship in Britain was abolished that same year and "Landscape" was staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London on 2 July 1969 with Ashcroft as Beth and David Waller as Duff, directed by Peter Hall. A film was made of the Peter Hall production with Ashcroft and Waller; it is currently available on DVD from Films Media Group of Princeton, New Jersey.