Krapp’s Last Tape By Samuel Beckett

Visionary director and visual artist Robert Wilson brings Samuel Beckett's haunting one-man play to the stage in a sharply stylised show.

Amid the cacophony of a torrential thunderstorm, an old man prepares to archive his last year on tape, as he has done on the eve of every birthday since his youth. Selecting an earlier recording, Krapp listens to his brashly confident younger self and is drawn into a chilling personal dialogue, his despair and isolation laid bare.

During a tour de force performance as Beckett's world-weary figure, Wilson recalls the movement of silent movie greats such as Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. Audiences have been enraptured with every nuanced expression and gesture, set against a ghostly backdrop of shadow and light.