one act play festival
An Intermission by Walter Carey / directed by Ken Chisholm
Whitney and John, two different types of creative individuals, worked on a play together and became intimate. Now the play is over and so is the relationship. As the sun rises on a new day, they critique, with some self-awareness and humour, their relationship, their theatre friends, the creative process, and how love blooms and fades.
Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett / directed by Rod Nicholls
Every year on his birthday, Krapp records his memories of the past year. Now turning sixty-nine, he listens to the taped voice of a thirty-nine year old Krapp talking about his love life, dying mother, drinking habits, plans to become a successful writer … and also about listening to another tape recorded in his twenties. The disembodied voice possesses a strong, sensuous reality and, in a strange reversal, Krapp becomes increasingly absent and more ghost-like than the recorded presence. Though his life has been captured and catalogued for future reference, it seems to have disappeared. He does not know who he is and has nothing left to say. Krapp’s Last Tape is one of the first twentieth-century stage plays to incorporate recorded media into the very structure of the drama. Yet it is the most moving and personal of Samuel Beckett’s plays.
