Waiting for Godot

Waiting for Godot is considered the masterpiece of existentialism, in which Samuel Beckett explores the fultility of man's hope.

Krapp's Last Tape

In Beckett's critically acclaimed play, an aging man, who lives a lonely and shabby existence in a darkened room, listens to a taped recording of himself as a young man.

Not I

In this short dramatic monologue set in a pitch-black space, a woman's mouth is illuminated only by a single beam of light as she rapidly relates four incidents from her life.

Rockaby

"Overpowering." - The New York Times

"This great writer's innovative use of language grows increasingly exact and painful." - Chicago Tribune

Endgame

"Endgame has outraged the Philistines, earned the contempt of the half wits and filled those who are capable of telling the difference between a theatre and a bawdy house with a profound and somber and paradoxical joy...A magnificent theatrical…

Happy Days

In Beckett's critically acclaimed tragicomedy, a chipper and chatty woman – buried to the waist – prattles on as her nearly silent husband hovers nearby.

Footfalls

May, wrapped in tatters, paces back and forth engaging in conversation with the disembodied voice of her mother. In the second scene, May's voice becomes subsumed into her mother's. She paces ever more slowly as the play progresses, and the light dims, so that by the fourth and final scene there is …

Words and Music

Words and Music is a complex "radio play” that sets up a dynamic between “Words” and “Music” as two character voices, existing in an uneasy relationship and under the command of a mysterious figure named Croak. 

A Piece of Monologue

A white haired man in a nightgown, in the terrible solitude of the night, agonizes over remembrances of loved ones. …

Act Without Words I

A man alternates success and failure whilst attempting certain actions.

Act Without Words II

Contrasts the actions of two actors as they attempt certain actions.

All That Fall

Brings together all of Beckett's dramatic writings for radio, television, and film, offering works which range from eloquent comic naturalism to an eviscerated and pared-down symbolism. This volume explores the resources and limits of the sound-stage.

Breath

Audiovisual piece. …

Catastrophe

Published in COLLECTED SHORTER PLAYS

Come and Go

Published in Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays by Samuel Beckett.

Three similar figures of "indeterminable"age, Flo, Vi, and Ru, sit quietly on a narrow bench, surrounded by darkness. 

Embers

Henry's father ended his life in the sea and for the rest of his life Henry is doomed to the sound of the waves roaring in his ears. For twenty years he has talked incessantly to drown the tempest of his father's watery grave. His wife, Ada, chatters and listens and endures; his child goes through t…

Ohio Impromptu

"A classic expression of the solipsism that obsesses Beckett's post human heroes." - Chicago Tribune

Play

In three urns side by side are encased two women and a man. The style is brilliantly abstract, ranging from choruses of existential oblivion to ruminations and reiterations of a common experience that ended unhappily for a man, his wife and his mistress.…

Rough Theatre I

A blind beggar, sitting on a folding-stool, is scraping away on his fiddle in the hope of getting a few coins from any passers-by. This day however a wheelchair-using man is drawn to his playing, and for whatever reasons, they each find themselves alone in the world.

Rough Theatre II

Two bureaucrats, first Bertrand and then Morven, enter a sixth floor apartment where they find Croker standing centre stage in front of an open window with his back to the audience, clearly on the point of throwing himself out of it.

That Time

Published in Collected Short Plays of Samuel Beckett. …

What Where

Published in Collected Short Plays of Samuel Beckett. …