The three internal spiral staircases, based on Palladian precedent, were not intended to be accessed by Lord Burlington's guests, and were used only by the house servants; a dumb waiter was installed in place of the fourth internal staircase.
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The first French reference to a " table servante ", a dumb waiter or tiered serving table with recesses for cooling wine for suppers free of protocol and servants, occurs in a bill of Gaudreau in 1735, of furniture delivered to Versailles.
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James Roose-Evans was the first Artistic Director, and the 1959 1960 season included " The Dumb Waiter " and " The Room " by Harold Pinter, Eug�ne Ionesco's " Jacques " and " The Sport of My Mad Mother " by Ann Jellicoe.
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Next he wrote " The Dumb Waiter " ( 1959 ), which premi�red in Germany and was then produced in a double bill with " The Room " at the A Night Out ", along with the popularity of his revue sketches, propelled him to further critical attention.
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The religion and society, which have traditionally structured human morality, are, in Pinter's plays, the immoral agents that destroy the individual . " Pinter supported the interpretation of " The Birthday Party " and " The Dumb Waiter " as " political plays about power and victimisation ".
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Between 2 February and 24 March 2007, Isaacs played Ben, opposite Lee Evans ( Gus ), in the critically acclaimed 50th-anniversary production of Harold Pinter's " The Dumb Waiter ", at Trafalgar Studios, in London, his first theatre performance since appearing in " The Force of Change " ( 2000 ).
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The album includes the 1990 charity single version of " Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime " ( originally from " Dumb Waiters ", 1980 ) recorded for the International Hostage Release Foundation, single " One Life " as well as a new rendition of " All The Love In The World " ( from " Sticky George ", 1981 ).
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One interpretation is that the play is an absurdist comedy about two men waiting in a universe without meaning or purpose, like Samuel Beckett's " Waiting for Godot " . " The Dumb Waiter . . . . achieves, through its unique blend of absurdity, farce, and surface realism, a profoundly moving statement about the modern human condition ".
