Endgame

What goes through an actor's mind when performing in one of Beckett's strangest plays? The star of Endgame gives a rare insight 'Blimey - never heard that line before' … Simon McBurney and Mark Rylance in Endgame. Photograph: Tristram...

In this article: Mark Rylance, Simon McBurney, God, and Alps

...in a 2002 production of Bedroom Farce at the Aldwych Theatre, though he was to have appeared in the current London revival of Beckett's Endgame but subsequently withdrew), Paul Ready and Michelle Terry. The production will be designed by Mark...

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...Jane. Pete Sears and Vanessa Baker share particularly sparky chemistry as the Martins. Sears, who last appeared in B Is for Beckett's Endgame, shows an impressive emotional grasp of his characters' predicament, and recent Lexington...

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"I'd love to do more," says Nica Burns, the co-owner of five West End theatres and the co-producer of the current revivals of Beckett's Endgame and Jim Cartwright's Rise and Fall of Little Voice, "but if I don't make the books balance I...

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...act, when Vanya attempts to shoot Serebryakov is both hilarious and desperately painful, confirming the truth of Beckett's line in Endgame "that nothing is funnier than unhappiness". Daisy Douglas movingly captures the ardent love of...

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...and has performed in numerous television and theatre productions. She plays Nell in Complicite's staging of Samuel Beckett's Endgame, at the Duchess Theatre in London, until December 5. She lives in the UK, Italy and Australia I...

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Life is a Dream, Donmar Warehouse, London Superlative substitutes Rylance and McBurney get 'Endgame' off to a very good start Stuck in ruts, yearning to escape but caught in a loop, incapable of change. That describes most of the...

In this article: Simon McBurney, London, Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Samuel Beckett, Neil LaBute, Anthony Neilson, and Mark Ravenhill

Tom Hickey as Nagg and Miriam Margolyes as Nell in Endgame THERE has been plenty to be afraid of in the theatre this week: across nearly four centuries, from a 1635 Spanish classic to four short new plays written this year, playwrights...

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...he is very destructible as Hamm, the blind, ageing, immobile master of some post-apocalyptic cellar in Samuel Beckett's 1957 play. Endgame is the one-act, more mordant successor to Waiting for Godot. It is usually seen as the lesser piece,...

In this article: Simon McBurney, Complicite, Miriam Margolyes, Samuel Beckett, Tom Hickey, London, and Nihilism

...Clov in McBurney's production of Samuel Beckett's Endgame Photo: ALASTAIR MUIR Samuel Beckett's Endgame at the Duchess Theatre Photo: ALASTAIR MUIR Endgame is the masterpiece that sorts out the men from the boys when it comes to admirers...

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