Krapp's Last Tape

Krapp's Last Tape (2015) is a theatre production by The Norwegian Theatre, based on the play by Samuel Beckett. The production is performed at Scene 3.

The director is Bjørn Sundquist.

The title role is interpreted by Jan Grønli.

Information

(Objekt ID 49259)
Object type Production
Premiere August 22, 2015
Produced by The Norwegian Theatre
Based on Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett
Audience Adults
Audience size 1593
Number of events 26
Language Norwegian Nynorsk
Keywords Monologue, Theatre, One-act Play
Running period August 22, 2015  
Website Det Norske Teatret
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At the website of The Norwegian Theatre the following, among other things, is written about Krapp's Last Tape:

"Krapp, an old writer, looks back at his life and his life's work. His last book only sold seventeen copies. He turned his back on love many years ago. His sight is about to leave him. He now spends his days alone, by his writing desk. He sits in front of a tape recorder with sound recordings of himself from earlier years. This doesn't exactly make him any merrier. He eats bananas, drinks and attempts to rewind over his past, but realises that he can't change it.

His desperation grows while it becomes increasingly clearer that the life that never really started is now about to end. He sits lonely, isolated and bitter. With his tape recorder as his only friend."

SOURCES:

The Norwegian Theatre, detnorsketeatret.no, 03.08.2015, http://www.detnorsketeatret.no/framsyningar/krapps-siste-spole/

Import from the Scenekunst.no list of openings 03.08.2015

Contributors (12)
Name Role
Samuel Beckett – Playwright
Bjørn Endreson – Translation
Bjørn Sundquist – Direction
Ola E. Bø – Dramaturge
Benedicte Folkman – Costume (Kostymekoordinator)
Jan Grønli – Actor (Krapp)
Åse-Berit Litleskare – Props
Hedda Rønneberg – Stage manager
Dag Jenssen – Photo
Pelle Dengsø – Stage Manager
Tryggve Ildahl – Stage Manager
Sissel Lillo Stenberg – Prompter
Performance dates
August 22, 2015 18:30 – Scene 3 (tidligere Prøvesalen), The Norwegian Theatre Opening night
Press coverage

Lillian Bikset, Nyanser av grått (literally: Nuances of grey), Dagbladet August 22 2015:

"Krapp's Last Tape is about aging, regret and the kinship between examining oneself and fooling oneself. Jan Grønli and Bjørn Sundquist interpret Krapp as a man who is older than his years. His habits and preferences have long ago turned into quibbles. He knows that resignation is the only thing left. But he doesn't accept it. The previous, and first, time, Sundquist directed Grønli was also in a play by Beckett, Waiting for Godot for The Norwegian Touring Theatre (2013). In tone as well as theme Krapp's Last Tape has much in common with this. The performance is a confrontation between lived and unlived life, personified in one and the same man. It is deeply human in its desperation and as deeply human in its comedy. Not that the divide between desperation and comedy is ever clear, in Beckett. Slapstick and existential pain belong naturally together, the way laughter and pain are (not that different) expressions in the same face. This understands the production at The Norwegian Theatre, and this it conveys."