Endgame
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 11, 2010
Closed Jun 6, 2010
Opened Apr 11, 2010
Closed Jun 6, 2010
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Steppenwolf Theatre Company continues its 2009-2010 season, an exploration of the theme of belief, with Endgame written by Samuel Beckett and directed by ensemble member Frank Galati. The cast includes Ian Barford, Francis Guinan, Martha Lavey and William Petersen.
Beckett's absurd comic masterpiece follows Hamm, a blind man unable to stand, and his servant Clov, who is unable to sit, as they pass their days in a tiny house by the sea--if the sea still exists. Pestered by Hamm's parents, they move through their daily rituals, awaiting the end of everything. A powerful all-ensemble cast anchors this profound exploration of the stories we construct to make sense of our lives.
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For the first Samuel Beckett play in its 34-year history, Steppenwolf Theatre Company has entrusted the playwright's1957 classic,
Endgame, to Tony Award-winning director Frank Galati and four members of the company's noteworthy ensemble, including TV and film star William Petersen as Hamm, the play's driving figure.
The result is an almost-breezy 75-minute performance that renders Beckett's iconic absurdist work easy to take and superficially accessible. But the treatment never plumbs the works deeper profundities.
On the surface, Endgame is about Hamm, a once-wealthy man who now lives in one bleak basement-like room of his house, impoverished, blind, and confined to a makeshift wheelcha[...]