Why Beckett's work holds a special significance
Simon McBurney discusses the terror of playing Clov in Complicite's production of Samuel Beckett's Endgame:
[...] Beckett is special, Endgame particularly so. It is unlike anything else I have played: fastidiously specific, utterly elusive. At any one moment in the performance, you will be aware of someone laughing hysterically, another weeping, while others sit silent, astounded or baffled. Endgame resists narrative and even thematic explanation. How you play it has to reflect this. If you decide something too much in advance, you forget the element that gives the play life – the audience. [Read More]The Complicite production of Endgame runs at the Duchess Theatre, London, until 5 December.
More on Complicite's Endgame:
- A Piece of Monologue: Critics review Complicite's Endgame
- A Piece of Monologue: Beckett's Endgame at the Duchess Theatre
- A Piece of Monologue: Simon McBurney on Beckett's Stage Directions
- Duchess Theatre website: Samuel Beckett's Endgame
- Daily Telegraph: Endgame to mark Richard Briers' final theatre performance
- The Stage: Mark Rylance to replace Richard Briers in Endgame
