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...original version of Krapp's Last Tape, one of those Beckett masterpieces which do not number accessibility among their many virtues, the audience did essentially that--sat in the dark--while the 69-year-old Krapp listened to his own voice on a tape. The audience listened to him listen to himself, replay himself, and tape his reactions to the replays. Mercifully, by skillful use of some impressive high-tech equipment, director Adam Cherson has somewhat embellished the purity of this experience. In this new version, Krapp (David Gullette) sits facing a hidden video monitor, and his reproduced image faces...
Krapp, stumbling through meaningless and totally self-referential rituals with his tapes, exemplifies life at an absolute standstill, paralyzed further by the authoritative presence of technology. His endless recycling of a few sparse impressions via his tapes serves only to lock him into the same room, situation, round of thought at the only new material comes in bizarre introspective snatches, such as his sensual enjoyment of the word "spool" (happened on by accident in the tape-playing instructions), or his momentary impulse to look up in a dictionary a word he once knew...
...Mongolia. Russian tanks, trucks; soldiers. Horsemen and gingerbread houses. Stand at window on, "yurt alert" (looking out for Mongolian round tents--yurts). Ulan Bator: Woman in traditional dress sees off granddaughter in cords with tape deck. Sunset across the grasslands...
...only an occasional '82 Buick Regal or Chrysler Le Baron gleams hopefully among older Coupe de Villes, Torinos and Caprice Classics. A Thunderbird stands in ruinous decay next to the embarrassing glint of a new Toyota. An ancient Ford station wagon, held together by spit and masking tape, boasts a bumper sticker that says: THUMBS UP FOR MICHIGAN...
...drug-loaded auto. He soon arrived in a Chevrolet Caprice. He reached under the dashboard, flipped a switch?and the back of the rear seat flipped forward. "Go ahead, take a look," Arrington told Scotti. The agent found a number of large brown packages wrapped in masking tape. He pierced one with a car key, sampled the white powder?and signaled agents who had been trailing in other cars. They moved in to arrest Arrington...