Experiencing this play as a man the same age as the disembodied recording, Krapp’s Last Tape is a strange experience. The younger Krapp believes his wave has crested, his best moments already ...

“Krapp’s Last Tape” — directed by Gunnar C. Sizemore ’27 — asks its audience to reflect on which moments in life really matter through an exploration of what it means to grow older.

Oldman’s features gradually freeze into a rictus of despair, and the lights go out. “Krapp’s Last Tape” is, by conventional standards, a forbidding piece: one act, 50 minutes, relatively ...

He is played by Stephen Rea, who has arrived from Dublin in a Landmark production of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, written in 1958 and directed by Vicky Featherstone. Rea is now almost a decade ...

Krapp's Last Tape/Not I has received several nominations and awards. Jessica Tandy was nominated for Outstanding Performance at the Drama Desk Awards. Samuel Beckett's play was nominated for Best ...

It was the act of hearing a voice on radio that inspired Samuel Beckett to write Krapp’s Last Tape. The voice belonged to the actor Patrick Magee, who was reading from Beckett’s novel Molloy ...

Irish company Landmark did for this production, originally staged by Vicky Featherstone in Dublin last year. Though the play is about ... his mother’s “viduity” (widowhood). On the old tape, Krapp ...

West Cork-based photographer John Minihan recently visited Gary Oldman in York to continue his tradition of capturing images ...

Vicky Featherstone’s production, first seen in Dublin last year ... As Krapp surveys his existence on a globe he calls a “muck ball”, he begins to clasp and embrace the tape recorder ...

SYNOPSIS: Every year on his birthday, Krapp has tape-recorded an assessment of his life so far. Now, having just turned 69, he listens with mixed emotions to the tape he made 30 years earlier.