Word: ebenstein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...DIFFICULTY with the production is that Pantagleize does have a definite element of diffuseness and irrationality in its organization. This is due to the device of viewing the play's events through Pantagleize's beknighted consciousness. But Judy Ebenstein's direction, while excellent with the major characters, does little to pull the many scenes and actors together...
...finally, very loose. In the epilogue Pantagleize roams on a darkened stage, amid more corpses than there are at the end of Hamlet, looking for an imaginary exit. Here is de Ghelderode's metaphor for modern existence: we are all dying in a trap without even knowing why. Miss Ebenstein's robust direction and Gordon Ferguson's fine acting wring every possible drop of pain from the jolting final scene...