The Caretaker

Tue 13 Mar 2007 – Sat 14 Apr 2007

13 March-14 April 2007
A Sheffield Theatres production
THE CARETAKER
by Harold Pinter
Director     Jamie Lloyd
Designer     Soutra Gilmour
Lighting Designer     Oliver Fenwick
Sound by     Christopher Shutt

Composers Ben & Max Ringham
Cast includes     David Bradley, Nigel Harman and Con O’Neill
**** “Three superb performances.” The Guardian
**** “The language leaps and crackles with black laughter. Not to be missed.” Sunday Times
“A feast for the Pinter famished… a cast to die for.” Daily Telegraph”
Aston finds Davies in a cafe and takes him under his wing until he “gets himself sorted out.”

The lonely drifter with no home, no occupation and two names becomes the Caretaker, not only of the house Aston shares with his brother Mick, but also of the brothers’ broken-down world of memories, pipe dreams and delusions.

As growing uncertainty gives way to an encroaching sense of menace, shifting allegiances play out in a series of dark and funny power games…