Krapp's Last Tape
From: Wednesday, 15th September 2010
To: Saturday, 20 November 2010
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Synopsis
Krapp's Last Tape is one of the most openly autobiographical of Beckett's writings, where he once again confronts himself but without the searing, wrenching pain and exhaustion of previous works. The play, tinged with sadness and at times overwhelmingly emotional is a poignant reflection of Beckett himself.
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Michael Coveney - 22 September 2010
Lovely to see Michael Gambon, of course, but this Krapp’s Last Tape, which comes from the Gate Theatre in Dublin, seems both too long and too short, padded out with extra business to last an underwhelming fifty minutes; insufficient bang for your £30 buck.
Evening performances start at 7pm and 8.15pm. But as, on opening night, the late-starting 7pm show came out at 8.15pm, this looks like a planning disaster. How can two audiences come and go, and the stage be re-set, in 20 minutes at most; and it’s a very cramped theatre. And the programme contains a detailed analysis and assessment of the “plot”!
Before speaking, Gambon adds a play and a half beyond the stage directions: slumped at his desk, he reluctantly unbends, then corkscrews round in slow motion to look up into the single light. He jumps at an imagined noise. He steps in and out of the stage light, playfully, as if pretending he knows he’s in a theatre. On peeling the second banana, he throws it away and holds ...
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Gareth James - 7 October 2010:
Michael Gambon is stunning in Beckett’s 50-minute monologue. It’s a long time before he moves and you can feel the tension in the audience ‘is he OK?’. When he does, he’s like a cross between King Lear and a clown. He hardly speaks, but his face and movement tell you much. I can’t say I entirely understand it (typical Beckett) but it’s worth the visit just to see the master in action. With this and Caryl Churchill’s 50-minute two-hander A Number sandwiching Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass, I have to say the latter does feel even like a feast though….and at 60p a minute (with my early booking discount!) it is a bit cheeky – it made me think that maybe the opera is good value after all….. ...
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Samuel Beckett (Author)
The Gate Dublin (Producer)
Michael Colgan (Director)
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