Krapp's Last Tape | It’s Not All Bananas
Hewes reviews a production of Krapp’s Last
Tape, finding the play to contain a ‘‘passion for life
and a robust poetry’’ that the critic found lacking in
Beckett’s other plays, notably Endgame and Waiting
for Godot.
As a man who found ‘‘Waiting for Godot’’ exasperating and ‘‘Endgame’’ stifling, it is a joy to report that Samuel Beckett’s newest effort lets loose a passion for life and a robust poetry that were deplorably manacled in the aforementioned plays. Titled ‘‘Krapp’s Last Tape,’’ this short character study begins unpromisingly as we watch a filthy old man rummaging about his disordered, dimly lit room. Too...
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