This is Beckett done right, this is Beckett at his most beautiful and brutal. You likely will never see a more completely realized ENDGAME than this one, and this is why the Catastrophic Theatre has endured so long. Because we need them to remind us of the absurd, the ominous, and the gothic with their sardonic humor.
Hamm is blind, paralyzed, and can’t stand. Despite this, he’s the one who sets the rules in his living quarters in a post apocalyptic world. Clov, who cannot sit down because of crippl9ing pains in his legs, is his ever present attendant and a very tired one. Completing the household are Nagg and Nell, Hamm’s
The 30th anniversary production stars Greg Dean, Luis Galindo, Jeff Miller, and Julia Oppenheim. Directed by Jason Nodler (September 19 - October 11 at MATCH). An apocalypse has engulfed the world outside. A single interior stands shelter to the blind tyrant Hamm, his weary attendant Clov, and Hamm’s parents Nagg and Nell. Hamm is paralyzed from the waist down; he can’t stand up. Clov suffers from crippling pains in his legs; he can’t sit down. Consigned to garbage bins filled with sand, Nagg and Nell have no legs at all. Each suffers and each persists, epitomizing the famous Beckett line: “You must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.”