in May 1957 in a converted squash-court and in a production by Woolf himself" (66–67). According to Woolf, Pinter "said he couldn't write a play in under six months. He wrote it in two days, he says four days, no it wasn't it was two days." Production history (Source: HaroldPinter.org:) 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. It was at this second performance that the play was first reviewed by the London Sunday Times by drama critic Harold Hobson, who had helped to found the Drama Festival with some of his colleagues. The original production featured the following cast: Bert Hudd - Claude Jenkins Rose Hudd - Susan Engel Mr. Kidd - Henry Woolf Mr. Sands - David Davies Mrs. Sands - Auriol Smith Riley - George Odlum The play was presented later at the Hampstead Theatre Club on 21 January 1960 as part of a double bill with The Dumb Waiter. It was directed by Harold Pinter and featured the following cast: Bert Hudd - Howard Lang Rose - Vivien Merchant Mr. Kidd - Henry Woolf Mr. Sands - John Rees Mrs. Sands - Auriol Smith Riley - Thomas Baptiste The double bill was transferred on 8 March 1960 to the Royal Court Theatre where it was directed by Anthony Page with the following cast: Bert Hudd - Michael Brennan Rose - Vivien Merchant Mr. Kidd - John Cater Mr. Sands - Michael Caine Mrs. Sands - Anne Bishop Riley - Thomas Baptiste Fiftieth anniversary In 2007, the fiftieth anniversary of the play's first production, the Theatre Archive Project, a collaboration among the British Library, the University of Sheffield, and the British AHRC, began interviewing surviving members of the cast, as well as the author of the accompanying one-acter The Rehearsal. In April 2007, as part of a three-day conference Artist and Citizen: 50 Years of Performing Pinter, held at the University of Leeds, in conjunction with which Pinter was awarded his seventeenth Honorary degree, Henry Woolf reprised his role as Mr. Kidd. On 26 May 2007 students at the University of Bristol, directed by Simon Reade, mounted a production in the original performance space – a converted "squash-court" as described by Billington (67) – which