John Turturro provides a surprisingly inert performance in Samuel Beckett's Endgame, now playing BAM's Harvey Theater; but luckily this disappointing turn is offset by stellar work from co-stars Max Casella, Alvin Epstein, and Elaine Stritch, who are the bright spots in director Andrei Belgrader's unfortunately uneven production.

Set in a post-apocalyptic world, Endgame is a semi-comic meditation on death in which the blind and wheelchair-bound Hamm (Turturro) presides over his oddly constructed family -- one that includes his servant/surrogate son Clov (Casella) and Hamm's trashcan-inhabiting parents Nagg (Epstein) and Nell (Stritch).

Turturro speaks in a sonorous voice and gesticulates[...]