Reviews for Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces

The average rating for Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-02-23 00:00:00 John Gray [Night. Interior. The REVIEWER, an elderly man, is seated alone in front of his laptop; a large screen above the stage shows that he is currently looking at the Goodreads page for "Krapp's Last Tape". Sounds of thunder, lightning, torrential rain from outside. The REVIEWER shakes his head, reaches into a drawer, changes his mind, reaches in again, takes out a banana, eats it. He continues to look at the same page. He takes out another banana and eats that too.] REVIEWER: I've reviewed it eighteen times. [He clicks his way to one of his reviews, which is clearly very long. As scrolls up and down, we see fragments of text:A harsher Proust, in a major key and without the redemptive quality of art... reductio ad absurdum of the theatre of the absurd... distillation... semantics...He jumps up and paces around the room.] REVIEWER: Jesus Christ, what a fucking wanker. Did I really write that? [He shakes his head] REVIEWER: Wanker. Let's look at one of the autobiographical ones. [He clicks to a second review:I sat, looking at the stage, but more at my companion, who was leaning comfortably against me, sound asleep. I wondered if I should adjust her dress, which was showing a generous amount of cleavage; but in the end, I only smoothed her hair. She turned towards me and smiled, half pleased, half irritated. I couldn't tell if she was was still asleep.The REVIEWER suddenly screams twice, then smiles at the audience.] REVIEWER: Here's my first one. [He clicks to another review. The whole text consists of the single line:I DONT GET IT. BORING.He shrugs.] REVIEWER: Well, at least that's honest. [He clicks back to the second review and scrolls down:... I wondered if I should adjust her dress, which was showing a generous amount of cleavage; but in the end, I only smoothed her hair...He starts shaking his head again.] REVIEWER: I shouldn't have done that. She never liked me touching her hair. [He starts to open another review, then suddenly closes the laptop.] REVIEWER: Enough. I'm glad I don't have to do any more of those. CURTAIN

Review # 2 was written on 2012-11-04 00:00:00 Susan (Bella) Hyde saw john hurt play krapp last week in culver city. when he spoke that last bit about the slitted eyes and the light i audibly moaned. transcendental stuff. "She lay stretched out on the floorboards with her hands under her head and her eyes closed. Sun blazing down, bit of a breeze, water nice and lively. I noticed a scratch on her thigh and asked her how she came by it. Picking gooseberries, she said. I said again I thought it was hopeless and no good going on and she agreed, without opening her eyes. [Pause.] I asked her to look at me and after a few moments' [Pause.]' after a few moments she did, but the eyes just slits, because of the glare. I bent over her to get them in the shadows and they opened. [Pause. Low.] Let me in."