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''The Room'', the first play written by Harold Pinter , has strong similarities to Pinter's second play, '' The Birthday Party ''. Both take place in run-down buildings claiming to be a "boarding house" which become the scene of a visitation by apparent strangers. In ''The Room'', after one of the two main characters, Rose Hudd, is visited by a young couple, Mr. and Mrs. Sands, who are looking for a flat, a blind black man, named Riley, who has purportedly been waiting in the basement, suddenly arrives upstairs to Rose's room, to deliver a mysterious message to Rose. The play ends in violence after Rose's husband, Bert, returns. ''The Room'' is invested with many of the elements that later became elements of Pinter's work including the familiarity of dialogue that is disturbing, the subtle characterization of characters with whom the audience learns nearly nothing, and a mood that can be funny, moving, and menacing simultaneously. Pinter wrote ''The Room'' over several days in 1957 at the suggestion of his friend Henry Woolf for his production as part of a postgraduate program in directing at the University Of Bristol , Bristol, England . PRODUCTION HISTORY ''The Room'' was first produced by Henry Woolf and presented at The Drama Studio at the University Of Bristol in May 1957 and again as part of the National Student Drama Festival held at the University Of Bristol in 1958 when it was first reviewed by the London '' Sunday Times '' by drama critic Harold Hobson who helped to found the Drama Festival with some of his colleagues. with the following cast:
The play was presented later at the Hampstead Theatre Club on January 21 , 1960 as part of a double bill with 'The Dumb Waiter' with the following cast:
The double bill was transferred on March 8 , 1960 to the Royal Court Theatre , Sloane Square with the following cast:
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