Krapp's Last Tape
Krapp's Last Tape Author: Samuel Beckett
First Performance: 1958, London
Published: 1958
Genre: Monodrama in 1 act
Setting: Krapp's study, c.1990
Cast: 1 m
Krapp, a ‘wearyish old man’ of 69 in shabby clothes, eats a banana, slips on the discarded skin, eats another, then shuffles off into the darkness, where he is heard having a drink. He returns with a ledger which lists events in his past life. Selecting the tape made on his 39th birthday, he places it on his recorder and begins to listen. The first mention of a former girlfriend causes him to switch off the machine and have another drink. He listens to the description of his mother's death, but when he gets to the section where he has seen ‘the light at last’, he grows impatient and fast-forwards until he reaches the part where he is lying...
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