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...second play in the series, Krapp's Last Tape, by Samuel Beckett, erased any doubts this viewer might have had about Wood's ability. Krapp is the only character in the play, making it difficult to determine how much of the credit for its success belongs to Woods and how much to his director, Judith Ebenstein. But there were several pieces of brilliant improvisation that clearly established his claim to a lion's share...
...Story & Krapp's Last Tape-- Albee, Beckett, three actors and a tape recorder. At the ATMA 496 Tremont...
...Story & Krapp's Last Tape--Albee, Beckett, three actors and a tape recorder. At the ATMA 496 Tremont...
Everything is presented in fits and starts, sputters without sparks, unreeling like a Krapp's last tape of random memories. Themes are developed capriciously, then dropped completely like essay answers in a sophomore's exam book. Nor is there a single plot line snaking toward a large revelation. Worthington, for example, is obviously by death obsessed, but he is far too thin-blooded ever to go gently raging toward that good twilight...
Like Beckett's Krapp, we are constantly talking to ourselves, trying to convince ourselves we are still alive. We feel monumentally guilty about a crime we cannot even name. And we hold ourselves under a continual sentence of disappearance. Deep within we know that the sentence is a just one. Canning a tomato is our reassurance that the sentence hasn't yet been carried...