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Just been listening to that stupid basta...

Krapp

Krapp's Last Tape

Samuel Beckett

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Gender
Male
Playing Age
Elderly
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
1
Time & Place
Krapp's den
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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Just been listening to that stupid bastard I took myself for thirty years ago, hard to believe I was ever as bad as that. Thank God that’s all done with anyway. [Pause.] The eyes she had!

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Be again, be again. [Pause.] All that old misery. [Pause.] Once wasn’t enough for you. [Pause.] Lie down across her.


For full scene, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Beckett, Samuel, “Krapp’s Last Tape,” Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett, Faber & Faber, 2006, p. 221-224.

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