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Put the kettle on. Playing now at the Guild is the comedy-drama The Dumb Waiter. The two-man show is a brooding Harold Pinter play about status, communication, and violent silence. The show stars Ben Rayner and Chris Doiron as two hitmen, Ben and Gus, who apprehensively await orders to strike. Ben, the senior hitman, and Gus, his younger, discontented partner, sit brooding in a dark Birmingham basement, an air of cabin fever setting in. Further straining the stress between them is a dumb-waiter, a small transport elevator for food, which springs to life as they wait. Gus and Ben frantically try to fulfill the requests that come in from the strange dumb waiter, including the final one with instructions for their next job.
Presented by Sheep-for-Wheat productions, The Dumb Waiter will take place August 30 and 31 and September 6 and 7, respectively, at The Guild. A short film sequence from this production of the Pinter play will begin the show and original music will be performed by Keith Baglole. Chera-lee Hickox and Fraser McCallum are the producers and Kelsey Moore is stage director. The show is licensed with doors open at 8 pm.