In the Stygian darkness of a bare room, a table on a low platform with a light hanging overhead starts to emerge. Then a door ...

In this latest revival of Krapp’s Last Tape at the Barbican Centre, it is the silence that speaks the loudest. At times, it’s ...

Krapp is the man of the moment. Sixty-seven years after Samuel Beckett’s monologue was first performed by Patrick Magee, ...

"This the worst play I have had the misfortune to witness... ridiculous... no acting apart from the eating of two bananas." ...

The best of the rest are earnest but arid acts of homage. If you’ve never seen Krapp before, Rea’s is a serious, finely ...

Some of the Wallpaper* team missed the memo regarding London's heatwave this week, opting for some (very good) gigs, plays ...

Gary Oldman's return to the theatre where he made his professional debut is a "very generous decision" by the star, venue ...

Rea hits every note. Yet he fails to fully capture the play’s coherent psychological through line Despite the meticulous ...

Instead, Oldman is now tackling another of drama’s lonely, shambolic, malodorous old men in Samuel Beckett’s 1958 monologue ...

A quick search through my emails shows that I signed up to the enjoyably titled “Waiting for Godot mailing list” in December ...

The star actor returns to the theater where he started almost a half-century ago, with Samuel Beckett’s bleak one-man play.

Krapp’s Last Tape is at York Theatre Royal until May 17, 2025. For more information, click here.