A Kind of Alaska was first performed in the Cottesloe Theatre, in London, on 14 October 1982, as part of a trilogy of Pinter's plays entitled Other Places. The original cast included Judi Dench as Deborah, Paul Rogers as Hornby, and Anna Massey as Pauline. The play was revived in April 2012 by the Bristol Old Vic in a double bill with Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape.