Krapp's Last Tape

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For their go at Krapp's Last Tape at New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre, Samuel Beckett's economical-yet-all-encompassing 1958 one-act solo, Brian Dennehy and director Jennifer Tarver have done something the playwright considered verboten. They've embellished on him -- and, more amazingly, have improved on him -- in this 54-minute outing.



In his usually sacrosanct stage directions, Beckett calls for Krapp to peel and eat a banana before saying a word. When he's finished chewing and swallowing, he has some business with the banana skin that requires him to slip on it and thereby provide a nice bit of spin on the old slipping-on-a-banana-skin sight gag.



Instead, Tarver -- whose at[...]