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If you let the words and imagery — and the emotions they conjure — wash over you without trying to make logical sense of the ...
Hamm, the volatile, unseeing tyrant in Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame,” has ordered the creation ... Placed on the floor by Hamm’s much-abused attendant, Clov, the pup promptly falls over ...
But then she, and playwright Samuel Beckett ... around the same period as Endgame, and it’s tempting to see its procrastinators lurking in Hamm and Clov’s own subconscious.
The End — the big one — is prefigured in “Endgame,” Samuel Beckett’s bracing portrait ... endless orders at an exasperated servant, Clov, as Hamm’s decrepit parents, Nagg and Nell ...
“Endgame” is dark, brooding and at times repulsive, which paradoxically has the negative effect of making one appreciate a ...
Those unfamiliar with the work of Irish playwright Samuel Beckett might find the ... Written in 1957, Endgame focuses on the blind, physically handicapped Hamm and his caretaker (or servant? or slave?
Must you feel anything when watching a play by the iconic absurdist Samuel ... the hopping Clov is a knight, and the trash-can parents are rooks. Kenner also thought that maybe “Endgame ...
Yasen Peyankov's staging of Endgame at Facility Theatre sets incredibly high emotional stakes for all the characters.
The play opens on Clov, who staggers into the room ... the Washington Stage Guild's production of Endgame is well-suited to fans of Beckett and absurdist theater, as well as those who don't ...
The Thunder River Theatre Company opens their production of Endgame by Samuel Beckett on Feb. 16 ... who is comfortable in his misery and treats his servant Clov the same way he treats his parents, ...
ENDGAME, by Samuel Beckett, explores themes of existential despair, isolation, and the cyclical nature of life. The relationship between Hamm, a blind and paralyzed man, and Clov, his servant ...
Samuel Beckett’s play “Endgame,” now up at the Irish Repertory ... The curtain drawer’s name is Clov (Bill Irwin), and, like many of the characters strewn dismally through Beckett ...