Set in a barren world at the end of time, "Endgame" is Irish playwright Samuel Beckett's gorgeous meditation on the absurdity of life in the face of certain death. If there's one thing the pandemic ...
Like all classic works of art, Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame” is both ageless and ever timely. But the play has a grim frisson of fresh resonance today. During the pandemic many of us spent days and ...
If Ebenezer Scrooge found himself isolated in a post-apocalyptic setting, with no one but his elderly parents and his long-suffering servant to haunt his monotonous days, he would probably behave like ...
There’s plenty of pleasure to be found at the end of the world in the Irish Repertory Theater production of Samuel Beckett’s play. By Laura Collins-Hughes The dog is a small, stuffed toy, pathetic and ...
The Nobel Laureate and Irish playwright Samuel Beckett reckoned that “Endgame” was his masterpiece, and a new staging at the Irish Arts Center confirms the play’s eminence as a landmark of 20th ...
An apocalypse has engulfed the world outside. A single interior stands shelter to the blind tyrant Hamm, his weary attendant Clov, and Hamm’s parents Nagg and Nell. Hamm is paralyzed from the waist ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick All four characters in this bleak tragicomedy, staged by the Druid theater company, share the human desire to hear the same tales again ...
Samuel Beckett and Samuel D. Hunter might seem to have little in common other than a first name. Beckett is among the most revered playwrights of the 20th century, while Mr. Hunter is a comparatively ...
The Thunder River Theatre Company opens their production of Endgame by Samuel Beckett on Feb. 16. Directed by Renee Prince at the TRTC, Beckett’s absurdist tragicomic play comes to Carbondale.