Krapp's Last Tape

...a record deal --- step down from the frame and onto the stage. "Mark and I talked about a honky-tonk version of [Samuel Beckett's] 'Krapp's Last Tape,' " where the lone protagonist relives his past by listening to himself as a younger...

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Goodman: "Hughie" and "Krapp's Last Tape" GOODMAN THEATRE PRESENTS THE BROADWAY-BOUND DOUBLE BILL OF ***BRIAN DENNEHY, ROBERT FALLS AND JENNIFER TARVER TEAM UP ONCE AGAIN Chicago, IL) Goodman Artistic Director Robert Falls, acclaimed...

In this article: Hughie, Joe Grifasi, Broadway, Brian Dennehy, Goodman Theatre, and Stratford Shakespeare Festival

...in a hostile Godless universe, but at least they have the consolation of companionship and a determination to keep on keeping on. Krapp's Last Tape may present us with a dying man whose hopes have turned to ashes but it is also illuminated...

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...the 2009/2010 Season are Brian Dennehy in the Broadway-bound double-bill of Hughie by Eugene O'Neill, directed by Robert Falls and Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett, directed by Jennifer Tarver (January 16 - February 21, 2010); the world...

In this article: Steven Robman, Goodman Theatre, Chicago, and Robert Falls

...loyal supporters. It is a Chicago play to the bones. Fourth is the double-bill of Eugene O'Neill's "Hughie" and Samuel Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape. " This Broadway-bound show, which stars Brian Dennehy and is directed by Robert...

In this article: Chicago, Broadway, New York, The Addams Family, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre, Tracy Letts, Daniel Craig, and Brian Dennehy

...in a prison cell and reading through an assortment of moleskin diaries contained in a cardboard box. I suspect the intention is to echo Krapp's Last Tape in that we see an incarcerated figure haunted by memories. But I find Nelson's...

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...middle prose period began after the war, after Beckett experienced a revelation that he would later fictionalise, with heavy irony, in Krapp's Last Tape, as "the vision at last", when he "saw the whole thing". As he later described it, he saw...

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...Artistic Director Jonathan Moscone's expansive, outdoor staging of the usually intimate play. A companion fractured-memories piece to "Krapp's Last Tape," "Happy Days" focuses more on the present than the past. On the surface, it's about...

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Krapp's Last Tape: Paul Gerrior (above) stars as the lonely man, reliving failed moments of his life on his 69th birthday as he sorts through the reel-to-reel recordings he'd made on previous birthdays, while occasionally consuming a...

In this article: Banana, Samuel Beckett, and San Francisco

Brian Hemmingsen sure knows how to ogle a banana. In the Keegan Theatre's somewhat wobbly staging of the Samuel Beckett classic "Krapp's Last Tape," the stocky actor holds a couple of the yellow fruit at eye level, leering at them with...

In this article: Samuel Beckett, Krapp, Banana, and George Lucas