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...WITHOUT WORDS KRAPP'S LAST TAPE HAPPY DAYS NOT! by SAMUEL BECKETT...
...characters in Samuel Beckett's plays are continually drawing their next-to-last breath of life. Thus it is fitting that three old playlets of his-Act Without Words (1957), Krapp's Last Tape (1958), Happy Days (1961)-and one new one, Not I, are currently on view at the Forum, little sister to the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Manhattan's Lincoln Center. Thanks to a fiscally inept board of directors, the Forum is drawing its last foreseeable breath with the Beckett quartet...
...distinctly Irish ritual, the wake. All of Beckett's plays are wakes for God. His desperate cosmic longings are deeply felt; but prolonged mourning, like anything else, does grow tedious. That is why Beckett is best in small doses. A brief cloudburst of tears like the one-acter, Krapp's Last Tape, is morosely refreshing, but a full-length downpour like Godot leaves one in a state of nihilistic depression...
...affinity with Beckett attested to by a BBC play, Eh, Joe, specifically written for him by the Nobel-prizewinning playwright. With a seamless unity MacGowran has assembled a one-man reading session, principally from Beckett's novels (Malone Dies, Molloy, The Vnnameable) and plays (Waiting for Godot, Krapp's Last Tape, Endgame). Cloaked in a black-spattered coffin of a coat, head and body shaken with keening tremors, and eyes stony with grief, MacGowran is the symbol of a man exiled from his own planet but imprisoned in his being...
Cunning Anthology. Words without plot. They are drawn from Malone Dies and Malloy, from Watt, Embers, Krapp's Last Tape and Waiting for Godot, but no seams show. There is an incident with a white horse, another with a girl, both long ago. There is an anecdote about two old men, deep trouble, silent snowy night, also long ago. The present, for Beckett's tramp, seems a stretch of shingle beach, or a corner in Caliban's cell. There is an outrageously shaggy story about the arrangement of 16 pebbles in four pockets, which grows with...