Krapp's Last Tape
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Dec 6, 2011
Closed Dec 18, 2011
Opened Dec 6, 2011
Closed Dec 18, 2011
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Running Time:
0hr. 55min.
0hr. 55min.
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Krapp's Last Tape is one of Samuel Beckett's most personal works for the stage. Featuring discreet details from the writer's own life, this dramatization of the messy truths of memory and time illuminates the predicament we face when we become strangers to our former selves.
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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[...]