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Jan 26, 2024 · Bemused by the confident delivery of the 39-year-old on tape, Krapp mocks his younger self’s artistic ambition. As he berates himself for his lack of achievement in the intervening years, Rea brings a harsh, almost sarcastic tone to his self-criticism, deepening its pathos.
Dec 9, 2011 · “Krapp’s Last Tape,” by Samuel Beckett, stars John Hurt as a 69-year-old man celebrating his birthday by reassessing a passage in his life from some 30 years before, captured on a tape...
- December 9, 2011
- Charles Isherwood
- 1 min
Dec 2, 2019 · KRAPP'S LAST TAPE ★★★★½. Old Fitz Theatre, November 30. When Jonathan Biggins' decrepit Krapp grieves for a lost love at the play's end, it tears at your chest like claws.
- John Shand
Aug 18, 2024 · Dive deep into Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion
Jan 22, 2018 · A miniature masterpiece – and absolutely prescient about how the past would be ever-present in the future. Krapp's Last Tape concerns a man who has recorded an audio diary on his...
Oct 11, 2012 · The tape made back in Krapp’s 39th year recounts multiple failures as a son, writer, lover and citizen, but everything is frustratingly fragmentary.
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Jan 18, 2024 · Krapp’s Last Tape review: Stephen Rea invites us to applaud the tape recorder – but the triumph is his. The actor had the forethought to record Krapp’s early tapes 12 years ago. What a ...