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...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...
...Krapp's Last Tape, one of Samuel Beckett's best-known plays, is being performed tonight only at Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St. in Boston. It's a one-man show, so a lot depends on the acting of the guy who plays Krapp, an eccentric old man who keeps a recorded diary, making one tape each year. The action of the play consists of Krapp playing one tape and making another. The cast of this production consists of Jim Cooke, a member of the Cambridge Ensemble and a teacher of theater education at Emerson College. At 8 p.m., tickets...
...recorded practically every bit of presidential business that took place at either the Executive Mansion or Camp David between the spring of 1971 and the summer of 1973, what has it done with all the tapes? Are they scattered all over the White House basement like a setting for Krapp's Last Tape, the Samuel Beckett play in which the wizened old man is surrounded by the tapes-and voices -of his past...
...Happy Days and up to the neck in Act II, life is a slow, garrulous leak into the sands of death. The trivia of her handbag and stray threads of memory sustain her, together with a fossil of a husband who is scarcely seen and seldom heard. In Krapp's Last Tape, the dialogue is incestuous. A 69-year-old man (Hume Cronyn) communes with his recorded self of earlier birthdays and indulges a ravenous appetite for bananas. Krapp is another of Beckett's incorrigible gas bags, an amusing aspect of a playwright who has been so widely...