"The soliloquy has found for the first and probably last time a form which combines the immobile mask and the mobile face, mime and speech monologue and dialogue and offers all their various resources to the performer" -Roy Walker, Twentieth Century, 1958

"(The) best dramatic poem about the old age of the world" -New Republic, 1960

It is one of the most autobiographical of all Beckett's work. Many of the incidents that Krapp refers to are drawn directly from Beckett's own life. It has been described as a literal translation of TS Elliott's "Burnt Norden"

"Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past,
If all time is eternally present,
All time is unredeemable".

Cast

Womberang, is an earlier play but shows the same lightness of touch, whilst dealing with quite serious and complex matters.

As with all her work, the comedy is underlaid with a serious intent, the characters many-layered and well perceived. Some may remember LRP's production of another early Sue Townsend play, Bazaar and Rummage, which was very well received last summer.

Cast

Crew

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