Stumped London Reviews and Tickets

85%

(2 Ratings)

Positive

100%

Mixed

Negative

Members say

Clever, Delightful, Absorbing, Entertaining, Refreshing

About the Show

Shomit Dutta's new play imagines a friendship between Samuel Beckett & Harold Pinter.

Before Samuel Beckett became a world-renowned playwright, he was a cricketer. He is still the only Nobel prize-winner to feature in the pages of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack - otherwise known as the Bible of Cricket - as a first-class player. His friend, fellow Nobel prize-winner & thespian, Harold Pinter, once described cricket as ‘the greatest thing that God created on earth’.

Stumped is a new witty play that explores what the friendship between these two playwrights may have looked like.

Guy Unsworth directs.

Show-Score Member Reviews (2)

Enchanting, Refreshing, Great writing, Delightful, Clever

See it if You’re a fan of Pinter and Beckett

Don't see it if You need a conventional plot to enjoy a play

100

Delightful, Absorbing, Witty, Entertaining, Clever

See it if Must see if you love cricket. Witty, cleverly written play for everyone to enjoy.

Don't see it if If you like long plays don't go. The whole show only lasts for 70 minutes. There's no break for fags or booze for those who just can't wait.

Critic Reviews (2)

“Director Guy Unsworth energises the script’s intentionally languid scenes, ensuring his performers wring laughs from even the driest lines as each of the play’s pensive passages gradually accelerates towards a high point of farcical silliness before an abrupt blackout resets the action.”
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“Cricket and the works of Pinter and Beckett enjoy an outsize influence on the cultural life of the nation compared to their popularity, but their enduring collective presence speaks to tapping into a certain element in the psyche, a place that is definitely there, but never quite visible. You’ll find it – all you need to do is wait.”
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