We can begin with the obvious parallels:  two men waiting for orders,...

We can begin with the obvious parallels:  two men waiting for orders, for an assignment.  There are suggested but unseen “other places”—in Godot, the origins of Pozzo and Lucky, and of the boy messengers.  In Dumb Waiter, the offstage locations seem to be more specific:  a food source on one side, a “suggested” birth and death exit and entrance on the other.  Some of the features of the setting, however, are decidedly...