measuring tape
krapps last tape and other dramatic pieces
this collection of nobel prize winner samuel becketts dramatic pieces includes a short stage play two radio plays and two pantomimes . the stage playkrapps last tapeevolves a shattering drama out of a monologue of a man who at age sixty nine plays back the autobiographical tape he recorded on his thirty ninth birthday . br the two radio plays were commissioned by the bbc ; all that fallplumbs the same pessimistic depths aswaiting for godot in what seems a no less despairing search for human dignity londontimes andembersis equally unforgettable theater born of the ramblings of an old man and his wife . finally in the two pantomimes beckett takes drama to the point of pure abstraction with his portrayals of inact without words i frustrated desired and inact without words i corresponding motions of living juxtaposed in the slow despair of one man and the senselessly busy motion of another .