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Krapp's Last Tape
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1m
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.
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Cast Size
1m
Details
Summary
The off-Broadway sensation, a tour-de-force for one man, is the most affectionate portrait of a character that Beckett has ever done: an aging man who lives a lonely and shabby existence in a darkened room. At year's end, he takes out a bottle of wine, a banana and his tape recorder, and he listens as his own voice from the past recounts the glories and hopes of his youth.
Media
“A melancholy tone poem... Samuel Beckett’s 1958 assessment of a life from the vantage point of its weary end.” – The New York Times
Videos
Krapp's Last Tape Trailer - Long Wharf Theatre
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John Hurt in Krapp's Last Tape - Promo
Licensing & Materials
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Authors
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) is widely recognized as one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.
Mr. Beckett is most renowned for his play Waiting for Godot, which launched his career in theatre. He then went on to w ...