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Theatre listings > Beckett2: The Basement Tapes - Rockby (Scottish Premiere) and Krapps Last Tape. First performed Rockaby in Buffalo, NY, USA in 1981 and Krapps Last Tape at Royal Court Theatre London England on 28 October 1958.
Director - Andy Arnold. Set Designer - Francis Gallop. Lighting Designer - Robert Hamilton Pringle. Sound Designer - Tiernan Kelly. Sound Installlation - Stephen Roe. Sound Editing - Stephen Moffat. Additional Sound & Lighting - Robert Watson. Design Assistant and Costumes - Sarah Chandler. Cast - Here. Company - The Arches Theatre Company Website. Venue - The ArchesTheatre. . Dates - 24 Feb - 19 March (not Suns) at 7:30pm. Tour details - here. Run Time - The double bill takes 1 hours 10 mins - Rockby the audience stands (contact theatre for special arrangements for those who can't) and there is some walking and climbing and descending staris between the two plays. Reviewer - Thelma Good. Awesomely perfectly pitched. The audience is gathered together and then led down into parts of The Arches audiences have never gone before. Along the way before the performances there are small light boxes fixed to the brick walls with images of memories, a woman winding up a bank of reverberating speakers and glimpses of people at the end of long corridors, a young man seated at a desk, a woman doing something benign with a hose. Then we stand round a small raise rectagular stage where a aged woman, Kay Gallie, dressed in the smart black sequinned dress of a century ago for a elderly lady. Her face strongly lit, she sits on a rocking chair, a chair which moves periodically even though she does nothing to make it do so apart from saying "More". That is all she says, the rest of text comes from a recording a woman speaking of the long waiting a woman goes through day after day where nothing changes. It is rhythmical and hypnotic, through it you come to understand how the old survive and let go.
Both Gallie and Dallmeyer's performances are awesomely perfectly pitched, the framing of the installation art before and after them underscoring the gift of Samuel Beckett's pieces which straddle both the real, nature of humanness and the left field power of metaphors you only partly grasp. Director Andy Arnold also in 2003 produced Becketts Three Short Plays - Play, Footfall and Not I and Waiting For Godot with these two he's building up some strong theatrical memories for audiences lucky enough to see them. © Thelma Good 28 February 2005 - Published on EdinburghGuide.com Cast- Rockby - Kay Gallie and Krapp's Last Tape - Andrew Dallmeyer. 2005 Tour Details Krapps Last Tape and Not I will be going to Belfast and Rockby and Krapps Last Tape will be touring in Scotland in April and May. Tour details on The Arches Website. Theatre Editor, Thelma Good's e-mail is thelma@edinburghguide.com Although every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information presented in these pages, no responsibility can be accepted for any errors or omissions. Theatre listings >
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