Word: krapp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...master of the interior monologue. But drama breathes only in dialogue. Hamlet is not babbling to himself in the four great inebriant soliloquies; he is addressing questions to his tormented soul, his troubled mind, his impotent will, and the sultry air resonates. In his one-character play, Krapp's Last Tape, Beckett took some notice of this problem. Between his senile musings and avid munching on a banana, Krapp turns on a tape recorder that relates all the romantic ardor and wistful yearnings of an earlier self. Thus, a kind of dialogue, and a very poignant one, is established...
...Robeson--2 and 8:00 Chile, Chiie--7 and 9:30 Sleuth--5 and 9:00 Twelfth Night--8:00 The Reason We Eat--6:30 and 9:30 Outside the Door--8:00 The Indian Wants The Bronx--8 and 10:00 The Outcast--8 and 10:00 Krapp's Last Tape and I Stopped and Turned--Caravan Theatre and 8:30 Forbidden Fruits...
...years, this book uncovers Beckett's development from a crisp but somewhat pedantic short-fiction writer ("Dante and the Lobster"), through his experimentation with the novel form (large sections of Molloy and The Unnamable), and finally into the most popularly successful phase of his art, drama (Waiting for Godot, Krapp's Last Tape...
...What was the nickname of Gene Krapp...
...Krapp's Last Tape, Play, Come and Go, and other short plays by Samuel Beckett are being performed at the Newbury St. Theater, Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St. in Boston, tonight and tomorrow at 8. Tickets...