Photo by Adam Liberman Endgame by Samuel Becket directed
by Gemma Whelanwith Steve Nye, Robert Hamm*, Martin Waldron, and Breda Courtney
Costumes: Taisia Nikonishchenko; Set Design: Michael Licher; Lighting Design: Malcolm Caruthers; Stage Manager: Angela Henderson
Nov 28 - Dec 21, 2003
"The knockout production of Samuel Beckett's modern classic ..." "It's a tremendous play, and this is one terrific production." Berkeley Daily Planet
"ENDGAME, Samuel Beckett's follow-on masterpiece (1957) after Waiting for Godot (1953), receives a riveting interpretation by a brilliant cast and Gemma Whelan's flawless direction ..." West County Times
"The actors do an exemplary job ..." "... a tight, provocative production." East Bay Express
"Esta fantástica pieza teatral, tal vez la mejor de Beckett, es dirigida excepcionalmente por la directora Gemma Whelan ..." "El grupo de actores es perfecto para la ocasión, al parecer ellos han salido del libro directamente al escenario." San Francisco Tribune
Photo by Adam Liberman
Samuel Beckett's Endgame is a poetic exploration of the nature of the human condition. The characters co-exist in a world suffused with sadness but interspersed with moments of levity and humor. Nell, confined to a trash can in her old age exclaims, "Nothing is funnier than unhappiness." In this rarefied universe the four remaining players mark time and try to delay the inevitable. " The end is in the beginning and yet I hesitate ...to end." The light is dying, seeds no longer sprout, and they are terrified that humanity might reconstitute itself. In this bleak beckettian universe, all is distilled down to the barest of essentials; the meaning conveyed in shimmering silences, the musicality of the speech and in the answering echoes of heartbreak and longing and loss.
*Member Actors' Equity Association, An Equity
Approved Project
