Not I
Not I
Author: Samuel Beckett
First Performance: 1972, New York
Published: 1973
Genre: Monodrama in 1 act
Setting: Darkened bare stage, indeterminate period
Cast: 1m, 1f
At the back of a darkened stage, only a Mouth is visible. Downstage stands the Auditor, cloaked in black, who listens intently to the Mouth and three times raises his arms in a gesture of compassion. Even before and after the curtain, the Mouth is heard speaking. When the curtain rises, a flood of disjointed phrases become audible. In essence, the Mouth describes how she was born and lived an uneventful life. Perhaps because of some trauma, she is unable to speak. She is perhaps simple-minded. She finds herself in court at one point. Then at the age of 60 or 70, her mind starts to work differently (has she died?), and from being...
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