Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays

Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571297005
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 145

Book Description
Krapp's Last Tape was first performed by Patrick Magee at the Royal Court Theatre in October 1958, and described as 'a solo, if that is the word, for one voice and two organs: one human, one mechanical. It fills few pages. It is perhaps the most original and important play of its length ever written.' (Roy Walker) The present volume brings together Krapp's Last Tape and Beckett's other shorter works or 'dramaticules' written for the stage. It will be complemented by a forthcoming Faber edition of dramatic works written for radio and screen. Arranged in chronological order of composition, these shorter plays exhibit the laconic means and compassionate ends of Beckett's dramatic vision. KRAPP 'Here I end this reel. Box - [ Pause.] - three, spool - [ Pause.] - five. [ Pause.] Perhaps my best years have gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back. [ Staring motionless before him.]

Krapp's Last Tape and Embers

Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

The Collected Shorter Plays

Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802144381
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Collects over twenty short plays published by the Nobel Prize winning playwright Samuel Beckett. Includes his mimes, radio and television plays, screenplay, and adaptations of other's works.

Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces

Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802198384
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
This collection of Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s dramatic pieces includes a short stage play, two radio plays, and two pantomimes. The stage play Krapp’s Last Tape evolves a shattering drama out of a monologue of a man who, at age sixty-nine, plays back the autobiographical tape he recorded on his thirty-ninth birthday. The two radio plays were commissioned by the BBC; All That Fall “plumbs the same pessimistic depths [as Waiting for Godot] in what seems a no less despairing search for human dignity” (London Times), and Embers is equally unforgettable theater, born of the ramblings of an old man and his wife. Finally, in the two pantomimes, Beckett takes drama to the point of pure abstraction with his portrayals of, in Act Without Words I, frustrated desired, and in Act Without Words I, corresponding motions of living juxtaposed in the slow despair of one man and the senselessly busy motion of another.

Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays

Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Faber & Faber Plays
ISBN: 9780571244560
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Plays.

Krapp's Last Tape

Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Clipper Audio
ISBN: 9781471233845
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Samuel Beckett, one of the great avant-garde Irish dramatists and writers of the second half of the twentieth century, was born on 13 April 1906. His centenary will be celebrated throughout 2006 with performances of his major plays, including Waiting for Godot. Here are the two most famous plays for solo voice. Krapp's Last Tape finds an old man, with his tape recorder, musing over the past and future. Not I is a remarkable tour de force for a single actress, as a woman emits memories and fears. Also included are two other singular short dramas for single voice, That Time read by John Moffatt and A Piece of Monologue read by Peter Marinker.

All that Fall

Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description
Published to celebrate the centenary of Beckett's birth

A Kind of Alaska

Author: Harold Pinter
Publisher: Samuel French
ISBN: 9780573121296
Category : Epidemic encephalitis
Languages : en
Pages : 19

Book Description

The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays

Author: Bertolt Brecht
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
These six plays represent the best and most humorous of Brecht's shorter works. The Jewish Wife is from the Fear and Misery in the Third Reich cycle of one-act plays, which, along with In Search of Justice and The Informer, chromicles the hardships of life in Nazi Germany. The Exception and the Rule, one of Brecht's most popular short works, grimly depicts the consequences of the mutually dependent -- yet inevitable inequitable -- relationship between the priviledged and the poor; it is included here with The Measures Taken and The Elephant Calf. Though all of these ales of horror, ad Eric Bentley calls them, have tragic undertones, they are also infused with farcical absurdities and cosmic irony so characteristic of Brecht's work.

Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape

Author: Daniel Sack
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317335368
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 81

Book Description
"We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us." - Krapp Samuel Beckett’s most accessible play is also one of the twentieth century’s most moving dramas about aging, memory, and disappointment. Daniel Sack offers the first comprehensive survey of Krapp’s Last Tape (1958) with a general reader in mind. Structured around a series of questions, five approachable sections contextualize the play in the larger career of its Nobel-Prize-winning writer, explore its major thematic concerns, and offer comparative analyses with Beckett’s other signal works. Sack also uses discussions of significant productions, including those directed by the playwright himself, to ground interpretation of the play in terms of its performance and provide a useful resource to directors and actors. Both a critical and personal exploration of this haunting play, this volume is a must-read for anyone with an interest in Beckett’s work.