Endgame and Act Without Words, (Paperback)

from hovercraftofeels

Often considered a condensed dramatic version of Beckett's Three Novels, Endgame is a meditation on the futility of life and its intricacies. Stylistically, one could classify this play as part of the Theatre of the Absurd. Hamm's parents have no legs and live in dustbins filled with sand. Hamm h...

from phredfrancis

I'm rating this based on the script for Endgame, which I think is scarier and funnier than Waiting for Godot. It's essential Beckett, so if you don't know what you're getting into, my advice is to be prepared. The humor is often in the performance of the lines, and without the context of the stag...

from paulskiy2k

I read this book for my 20th century British Literature class and I fell in love with the play. The characters in the play are so complex yet once you think about it. Minus the crazy way they live, their relationships to one another is the same that many people today have together. People who hav...

from Madaroo

"Use your head, can't you! Use your head! You're on Earth, there's no cure for that!"

from girlunderglass

Absurdist, surreal, existentialist - all words thrown in together by literature students and aspiring actors trying to explain this play. Beckett hated all of them. Sure, use the terms as an attempt at genre classification if that's what you need to do. But to say the play is absurdist in the rea...