Krapp's Last Tape

Samuel Beckett · 1958 CE · Play · English · Contemporary

On his sixty-ninth birthday an old man sets up a reel-to-reel machine, eats bananas in the dark, and plays the tape he recorded thirty years earlier, on which a younger voice is already jeering at a younger one still. He winds back again and again to a few minutes in a punt on a lake. Written for Patrick Magee, whose voice on the radio Beckett had been unable to forget.

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