Old Vic, London
Deftly bringing out the humour in Samuel Beckett’s lines, the two actors bring fresh life to a tale of imminent doom
As a blind man and his valet swap evidence of personal and universal collapse amid interruptions by an old couple who live in dustbins, Samuel Beckett’s Endgame projects an unnerving sense of nothingness, in heaven as it is on earth.
But the play is not, as Beckett-sceptics claim, about nothing. While the Irish-French dramatist avoided historical or political specificity, the apocalyptic nihilism of Endgame surely reflects its composition in 1957, as the aftermath of the second world war overlapped with the new human brutalism of possible nuclear annihilation.
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