
This is bizarrely funny. But you don't get that when you read it. Only when you see it performed. In our lecture on this play we were shown a clip with the actor who played Remus Lupin and its oddly hilarious. Beckett has always been associated with the theatre of the absurd. That being the act of making a mockery of our everyday constructs. Exposing the insanity inherent within our everyday rituals. Endgame is very much about this. Clov and Hamm have a very toxic relationship. Neither want to be together but both are aware the cannot live without each other.
This has been called by critics is a play without a point. It's bleak, morose and without ever saying the word is concerned with nothing aside from the inevitable end of all humans. Death. It's definitely not my favourite play but I still enjoyed it.
INFO
Name: Endgame
Author(s): Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Pages: 50
ISBN: 978-0-571-24373-0
Rating: 3/5
Have you read Endgame?
What did you think?
Thank-you for reading,
Katie x
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