Krapp's Last Tape, and Other Dramatic Pieces by Samuel Beckett

Krapp's Last Tape, and Other Dramatic Pieces by Samuel Beckett

This collection of Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett's dramatic pieces includes a short stage play, two radio plays, and two pantomimes. The stage play Krapp's Last Tape evolves a shattering drama out of a monologue of a man who, at age sixty-nine, plays back the autobiographical tape he recorded on his thirty-ninth birthday.
The two radio plays were commissioned by the BC; All That Fall plumbs the same pessimistic depths as Waiting for Godot] in what seems a no less despairing search for human dignity (London Times), and Embers is equally unforgettable theater, born of the ramblings of an old man and his wife. Finally, in the two pantomimes, Beckett takes drama to the point of pure abstraction with his portrayals of, in Act Without Words I, frustrated desired, and in Act Without Words I, corresponding motions of living juxtaposed in the slow despair of one man and the senselessly busy motion of another.

Charlie Beckett is the founding Director of POLIS, the forum for research and debate into journalism and society at the London School of Economics. He has worked for some of the best news and current affairs programs at the BBC and Channel 4 News. He currently writes and broadcasts internationally about global journalism while also teaching and researching at the LSE and the University of the Arts of London.

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ISBN 13	9780802151346
ISBN 10	0802151345
Title	Krapp's Last Tape, and Other Dramatic Pieces
Author	Samuel Beckett
Series	Beckett Samuel Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Avalon Travel Publishing
Year published	1994-01-14
Number of pages	141
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