Samuel Beckett's Endgame

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Performances:

Thursday, 2nd of April
Friday, 3rd of April
Saturday, 4th of April

Venue and Times:

Tojo Theater Reitschule Bern
Neubrückstrasse 8
3001 Bern

Doors: 20.00
Beginning: 20.30


Ticket reservation:via e-mail Please indicate your name, the number of tickets required and the date you want to attend the play.




Endgame - by Samuel Beckett

The endgame consists of the final moves of chess before checkmate, or just as likely, stalemate. But here we are caught in time, the players ready to pack up the pieces, or the actors to take off their costumes, or to take the dustsheets off an old life, before the game, the play, finishes or starts again, the ever-repeating routine, the next performance of the human tragedy, the cosmic joke. Such dreams! Do we laugh? Nothing is funnier than unhappiness or the cry in the darkness perhaps won't have all been for nothing, if merely the futile search for meaning.

In the refuge, a room at the end or beginning of time, outside the walls another hell in a dead world, Hamm, patriarch, blind and bound to his chair, plays out this farce with Clov, his limping butler, steward, adopted son, who can walk but not sit. Meanwhile, the ancient parents, Nell and Nagg, after a bit of a laugh, quietly live out their final days in dustbins lined with sand, not sawdust. This is more or less - roughly - the stuff of Samuel Beckett's second major tragi-comedy Endgame (first performed 3rd April 1957), as philosophical, from Zeno to Satre, as it is comic, from Pyramus and Thisbe in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream to Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. What T.S Eliot's Waste Land is to poetry, James Joyce's Ulysses is to the novel, this play is to the great theatrical works of our time, but a lot more amusing.

"Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly there's a heap, a little heap, the impossible heap."


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