Endgame
Endgame (Fin de partie) Author: Samuel Beckett
First Performance: 1957, London
Published: 1957
First English Translation: 1958
Genre: Drama in 1 act; French prose
Setting: Room in indeterminate location, the future
Cast: 3m, 1f
In a bare room with one door and two high windows, a figure sits draped with a dust sheet, behind whom stand two dustbins. A stiff-legged servant Clov moves around, finally removing the sheet to reveal Hamm. Clov begins with: ‘Finished, it's finished, nearly finished.’ Although Hamm, blind and confined to a wheelchair, is at Clov's mercy, Clov serves him grudgingly. When asked why Clov doesn't kill him, Clov replies that he does not know the combination of the larder. When Hamm asks for things (including later painkillers and coffins), Clov tells him that...
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