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Krapp’s Last Tape’s endless returns

New Statesman·Rachel Cunliffe·21 days ago
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Picture courtesy of the Royal Court Theatre Beckett is a master of metatheatrics. His dramas are as much about the concept of theatre itself – and the subversive act of watching them – as they are about anything else. So he would approve, I think, of the artistic choices the Royal Court has chosen to revive the single-act one-hander  Krapp’s Last Tape , which first graced its stage in 1958, as the curtain-raiser to the English-language performance of  Endgame . The curtain-raiser this time is a short new venture into the  Waiting for Godot  universe by Leo Simple-Asante, winner of the Royal Court’s Young Theatre Award, which invites us to imagine quite what was holding up Beckett’s evasive eponym. Sharp and knowing, slickly performed by Shakeel Hakim as Godot and Flora Ashton as a disembodied voice, it is a fitting a reminder of the blurring of reality we are here to experience.…

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