In London, England, circa 1960, sits a dilapidated room with two sagging beds, an old gas-cooker, and junk-filled shelves owned by a tough guy with plans to redecorate the house. His brother, a neat, buttoned-up young man, brings a tramp home to share his room. What happens next is pure Pinter "¦ much failure to communicate, unexpected moments of violence and multiple shockwaves of incredible hilarity - comedy of menace!

Born in 1930 in Hackney, London to a working-class native English-Jewish family, Harold Pinter is the author of twenty-nine plays, fifteen dramatic sketches, over twenty-one screenplays for film and television, a novel, and several prose fiction and essays. He is the recipient of numerous awards in the UK, in America and around the world, including a 1967 Tony Award for Best Play for The Homecoming, Academy Award nominations for his screenplays of The French Lieutenant's Woman and Betrayal.

Although he only attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art for one year (1948-1949) he holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Reading, Glasgow, East Anglia and Bristol. Since the early seventies Pinter has been actively involved in political protest and human rights issues, having abandoned his playwrighting career in 2005 to focus entirely on activism. He is the 2005 recipient of The Nobel Prize for Literature.

"Pinter restored theatre to its basic elements: an enclosed space and unpredictable dialogue where people are at the mercy of each other and pretense crumbles." - Citation for the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature

The Caretaker is directed by veteran of the stage, Douglas Campbell. Centaur audiences will remember him fondly for his outstanding performances as Deputy Governor Danforth in The Crucible and Weller in The Gin Game. He was recently honoured with The Governor General's Performing Arts Award and prior to that The Order of Canada in celebration of more than sixty years in the theatre. His career began in Britain and was lured to Canada for the inaugural season of The Stratford Festival. Mr. Campbell also co-founded the Canadian Players bringing professional theatre to all corners of the country. He has played roles ranging from The Great Detective to King Lear, from Alfred P. Doolitle to Henry VIII in a career that has encompassed film, television and radio. Mr. Campbell has acted and directed across Canada as well as in New York, Los Angeles (Mark Taper Forum, Civic Light Opera), Philadelphia (Bristol Riverside), Chicago (Goodman), Lansing (Boarshead), and Minneapolis (Guthrie), where he was Artistic Director.

The cast is comprised of John Dunn-Hill as Davies, Alain Goulem, last seen at Centaur Theatre in Long Day's Journey Into Night, and Neil Napier from Centaur's World Premiere of Condoville. The Caretaker Set and Costume design is by Vincent Lefèvre, lighting design by Luc Prairie, stage management by Melanie St-Jacques with Assistant Stage Manager Alexie Lalonde-Steedman. -- www.centaurtheatre.com