Krapp's Last Tape and Not I

Krapp's Last Tape follows an elderly man named Krapp on his sixty-ninth birthday. He sits in a dim room with a tape recorder and a box of old spools, each holding his own voice from earlier years. He listens to the recordings, sighs and laughs at his confident younger self, and pauses to speak into the machine.

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The second piece, Not I, is a short work in which a single mouth glows in darkness and pours out a torrent of words. Both pieces strip theatre down to voice, light, and the weight of memory.

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