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Endgame
A Tragic Comedy
by Samuel Beckett

Belinda Ray, Director 802-785-4354 email
Ray Chapin, Producer email

Show Dates: Thursday - 7:30pm, May 24, 31
Friday and Saturday - 7:30pm, May 25, 26, June 1, 2
Sunday Matinees - 3pm, May 27, June 3

Ticket Special: Opening night is a pay-what-you-can night, Thursday May 24th.

"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness."

In Beckett's stark, yet enigmatic world, comparable to the last stage of a chess match, the king is Hamm, a blind man confined to a chair. Though he can't see or walk, he exercises control over his distorted domain. Hamm's servant is Clov, a constant companion who carries out Hamm's instructions with a mixture of obedience and loathing. The characters are rounded out by Nell and Nagg, Hamm's parents, who poke their heads up from garbage cans set in their assigned place on the "board".

Beckett, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1969, regarded Endgame as his most successfully realized play and it has won over audiences in recent productions, hailed by critics as "terrific", "hilarious", "spellbinding", and a "triumph". The play is simultaneously poignant and funny, delving into perplexing questions of human existence: Why are we here? Where are we going? Does it all have any meaning? Director Belinda Ray believes the play is "nothing if not an extreme embodiment of the extremities of human existence, and how could it not be completely relevant today in this great 'end of times' year of 2012, as when first performed in 1957".

A tragic comedy of iconic proportions, and arguably Beckett’s supreme masterpiece, Endgame is a singular experience not to be missed.

Featuring:
Alan Gelfant as HAMM
Neal Meglathery as CLOV
Charlie Glazer as NAGG
Effie Cummings as NELL