The Caretaker

Summary

BBC production of The Caretaker by Harold Pinter.

Theatre play

The Caretaker by Harold Pinter [more information]

Play synopsis

A ‘psychological study of the confluence of power, allegiance, innocence, and corruption among two brothers and a tramp’ which became Pinter’s first significant commercial success’ (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Caretaker).

Production history

Opened at the Arts Theatre, London on 27 April 1960 and it soon developed an international performance life (sources: Mark Batty, About Pinter: The Playwright and the Work, p. xiv; Michael Billington, The Life and Work of Harold Pinter, p. 129).

Date of transmission

Sunday 7 June 1981

Time

7.15-9.15pm

Channel

BBC1

Production company

BBC

Credits

Director

Kenneth Ives

Producer

Alan Shallcross

Lighting

John Treays

Playwright

Harold Pinter

Designer

Barry Newbery

Sound

Richard Chubb

Cast

Kenneth Cranham	Aston
Warren Mitchell	Davies
Jonathan Pryce	Mick

Additional details

Play tags

homelessness

Audiovisual sources

Title

The Caretaker (BBC, 1981)

Archive

BBC Information and Archives [more information]

Address

White City
London
UK

Telephone

+44 (0)20 8008 2288

Website

http://www.bbc.co.uk/informationandarchives/

Access

BBC Information and Archives is not open to the public.

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 4 June 1981 (Magazine)

Linking notes

illustrated article by Benedict Nightingale, pp. 11-12; listing, p. 28