Should you have been waiting in earnest for Krapp to show up – not unlike a character in a different Samuel Beckett play – ...

In the Stygian darkness of a bare room, a table on a low platform with a light hanging overhead starts to emerge. Then a door briefly opens at the back of the space and the figure that has entered and ...

Irish company Landmark did for this production, originally staged by Vicky Featherstone in Dublin last year. Though the play is about ... of his mother’s “viduity” (widowhood). On the old tape, Krapp ...

the pouring of liquor – and to retrieve the tapes on which, every birthday, he has recorded his reflections on his life. Now he’s 69, about to make his last ever recording – but not before ...

Oldman’s features gradually freeze into a rictus of despair, and the lights go out. “Krapp’s Last Tape” is, by conventional standards, a forbidding piece: one act, 50 minutes, relatively ...

Back on the stage where he made his theatre debut in 1979, the Slow Horses star pours everything into Beckett’s bleak ...

Does Oldman impress in his first stage appearance in 37 years? Does Krapp’s Last Tape captivate the critics? Fergus Morgan rounds up the reviews... Not a huge amount happens in Krapp’s Last Tape.

In this latest revival of Krapp’s Last Tape at the Barbican Centre, it is the silence that speaks the loudest. At times, it’s ...

Krapp is the man of the moment. Sixty-seven years after Samuel Beckett’s monologue was first performed by Patrick Magee, there are two versions on stage in the UK simultaneously. In York, the ...