Samuel Beckett - Krapp's Last Tape (Patrick Magee)

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Full version. Krapp's Last Tape is a one-act play, written in English, by Samuel Beckett. Consisting of a cast of one man, it was originally written for Northern Irish actor Patrick Magee and first titled "Magee monologue". It was inspired by Beckett's experience of listening to Magee reading extracts from "Molloy" and from "An Abandoned Work" on the BBC Third Programme in December 1957.
The play, which premiered as a curtain raiser to Endgame (from 28 October 1958 to 29 November 1958) at the Royal Court Theatre, London, was directed by Donald McWhinnie and starred Patrick Magee. It ran for 38 performances (Wikipedia).

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@DerekHunterDHChaosRiddler 10 жыл бұрын

This performance here is to me some of the best acting I've ever seen ... he has not one single other human being to bounce his emotions off of ... to express what he does in this production with no help from another actor ... is f-ing amazing ...

@sitonmyshamrock1 8 жыл бұрын

Where has this been all my life? Where has my life been before this? One of the most moving pieces of work I've ever seen. Thanks for posting.

@ZantherStone 6 жыл бұрын

It's been one year since you posted this... how have you embraced life since . . . ?

@TimonofBath 6 жыл бұрын

He may have left this old muckball.

@jamesbradshaw3389 2 жыл бұрын

Thank God that it was possible to record those very fine moments those great happenings, those masterworks of those 2 very great men Samuel Beckett and Patrick Magee, now they will last forevermore like the great painting of the old masters

@Lobajoba 3 жыл бұрын

That was actually beautiful, almost in tears. Never could get round Beckett until today. Thank you for putting this up.

@alllowercase6277 3 жыл бұрын

Great actor. First came across him in A Clockwork Orange. Then Pinter's Birthday Party. Spooky. Haunting. The weirdest intensity. Eyebrows and sweat. Unique and unmatched.

@michaelnixon525 5 жыл бұрын

Box three spool five. The eyes she had, like chrysolite. Thirty nine today - sound as a bell. What a writer !

@ToniSeger 7 жыл бұрын

Magee was unforgettable in Marat/Sade. Absolutely masterful. It's obvious why Beckett wanted him to do this.

@michaeligoe3935 6 жыл бұрын

Beckett was in awe of Magee.

@chowt002 6 жыл бұрын

Didn't just want him to do it, he wrote the play because and for him

@_GabrielSevilla 8 ай бұрын

Best Krapp (all senses ;-) I've ever seen. Even better than Pinter's, which I already admired. Magee was Beckett's inspiration for this play and his performance remains on top. Thanks so much for posting this.

@BlaineGarrett1 3 жыл бұрын

For some reason, I had it in my head that Krapp slips on the banana peel at the end of this play and dies. I have not seen this play in years, but somehow my brain filled in that element.

@PIPEHEAD Жыл бұрын

New brain required, perhaps ?

@DerekHunterDHChaosRiddler 10 жыл бұрын

A Masterpiece.

@DerekHunterDHChaosRiddler 10 жыл бұрын

This play is soooo damn good ... as it is written ... and here ... as it is brilliantly acted by Magee.

@alainbohon6941 2 жыл бұрын

"As in Krapp's Last Tape; our existence becomes more lonely as the radios and TV's and telephone extensions in our houses become more numerous" From Rollo May's "Love and Will", 1969.

@PIPEHEAD Жыл бұрын

To have said that in 1969 was pretty impressive, and the play is even older ! Supposedly, when writing was invented, all the oldsters complained that people would forget how to remember things. Beckett, when he first laid hands on a tape recorder ( which will have tripped him out good style in the 50s ) , must have thought " before you know it, everybody will be walking round with mobile phones attached to their ears .................. ) .

@johnking7685 4 жыл бұрын

Fabulous. Many many thanks. I remember seeing it when it was originally broadcast.

@007123ramsey 10 жыл бұрын

This is an interesting and compact performance. Patrick Magee was a great actor who had a preference for the stage. He also made some memorable films, remember him as the sadistic warden Mr Barrows in the 1960 film `The Criminal` with Stanley Baker and directed by Joseph Losey. He made a lot of horror films to finance his first love the stage. Some of the horror films though panned by the critics are minor classics now for example `The Fiend` directed by Robert Hartford-Davis also the horror anthology film `Asylum` made in 1972 directed by Roy Ward Baker and featuring a young Robert Powell. Sadly he died in 1984 at the age of 62 - a great loss to the stage.

@MrDavey2010 Жыл бұрын

Superb actor whose talent was never commercially recognised.

@hellbooks3024 Жыл бұрын

What do that mean? He worked.

@Da1Dez 9 ай бұрын

"Vicitm of a modern age!!!... poor poor actor!"

@pandulagodawatta7398 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely masterful everlasting performence!

@TheMattTempest 4 жыл бұрын

Would imagine this performance is the reason Kubrick picked Magee for the role of 'the writer' in A Clockwork Orange?

@jansmiths8629 9 жыл бұрын

god he was good. thx.

@naufalriskiawan6547 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Mr. Steve!

@mokshyanta1757 2 жыл бұрын

Wow ....just wow...no words.....Actor❤️

@michaelnixon525 5 жыл бұрын

Box three - spool five. Spooooool. Thirty nine today. Sound as a bell . Farewell to ...love .

@michaelnixon525 5 жыл бұрын

The eyes she had - like chrysolite.

@redstrat1234 7 ай бұрын

Amazing

@user-kk5kr5ys6i 5 жыл бұрын

Much underrated actor, except by the very best directors and writers.

@user-kk5kr5ys6i Жыл бұрын

@@hellbooks3024 Couldn't tell you. iI can't remember now why I said that, so I must take it back.

@user-kk5kr5ys6i Жыл бұрын

@@hellbooks3024 I must take it back, because I cannot remember now why I said it. Thanks for asking. 😔

@Reallyrandomcircle 6 жыл бұрын

The slow fade to silence and darkness really adds something the text lacks

@rd264 2 жыл бұрын

Beckett's futility and desperation is always hilarious

@hellbooks3024 Жыл бұрын

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness

@Roarkethemerciless 8 жыл бұрын

FOOOD... Alright ?

@bobh.9035 6 жыл бұрын

Spool...Spooool.....Spooool (of tape, Krapp's Tapes, and last tape)....

@ricarleite 5 жыл бұрын

TRY THE WINE!

@thetruepoemproject3441 5 жыл бұрын

@@ricarleite Great reference..... Bravo!

@TerryUniGeezerPeterson Жыл бұрын

Naaooow, she'd Dead!

@gordonm.7387 8 жыл бұрын

Pat Magee was a brilliant actor, loved a Guinness on the set, but Kubrick ran dry sets which irked old Pat. He's amazing in The Criminal (1960, Joseph Losey) where he plays a closet homosexual prison warden who tries to torment Stanley Baker, fucking hilarious movie!

@samnicholson5051 2 жыл бұрын

It would have to have been the future. There were no home tape recorders until 1946, so at the time this was written, Krapp was an impossibility. But come the present day this scenario could easily be playing out right now...

@TextundBuehne 2 жыл бұрын

I'm afraid that's not entirely true: the play was written and premiered in 1958!

@samnicholson5051 2 жыл бұрын

@@TextundBuehne yes but Krapp had making tapes for at least 42 years, which in 1958 would mean he had a tape recorder in 1916. Trying to imagine that, would have been like trying to imagine having a website back in 1979.

@TextundBuehne 2 жыл бұрын

Good point!

@elisap8671 2 жыл бұрын

@@samnicholson5051 if you look at the script, to avoid this exact problem you are pointing out, Beckett began the play with a caption "a late evening in the future"! Nice point indeed!

@PIPEHEAD Жыл бұрын

The answer's a bit simpler than that. Krapp started his diary in a Lett's diary he got for Christmas when he was six. When he got his first reel to reel tape deck, he recorded all his diaries onto tape, starting from the very first one, which he still had ! He wasn't stupid, so he realised he needed to employ a crack team of actors, specially chosen for having just the right quality of voice to pass for his string of former selves. By means of regular presents of tinned condensed milk, he was easily able to persuade them to record a few snippets of his diary, closely directed by himself for the optimum match. The reason he seems so convinced by all the phoney voices is because he knows the difference between " Art " and " Con " ...................

@raysierra4194 Жыл бұрын

Patrick magee is also in Telefon with Charles bronson.people never seem to mention that one

@LuDux Жыл бұрын

Great camera work by "Little" John Moore

@jon.e 8 жыл бұрын

The ending of this plays on one of my biggest fears in life...seriously not cool this was assigned to me. :-/ ugh Gotta say, though, this version was the best I saw. Granted, I only saw two versions...but still. Magee did much better!

@Jan96106 8 жыл бұрын

+Jon E. Face your fear. This eventually happens to everybody.

@jon.e 8 жыл бұрын

Jan96106 Sadly, I know you're right. :(

8 жыл бұрын

Its not about that kind of death. Its about death in life. This is the big problem! No hope no nothing.

@TextundBuehne 10 жыл бұрын

Samuel Beckett - Krapp's Last Tape (Patrick Magee)

@classy_dweller 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you heartily for uploading this great European work !

@jeanfatale 10 жыл бұрын

Is it just me or is there only audio on the left channel?

@charlesschaefer1974 6 жыл бұрын

yep

@alexxeyaverkin5944 3 жыл бұрын

Nope

@gaiamritawhitright8890 Күн бұрын

oh good I was afraid my earphones had broken

@kevinmcgrath127 2 жыл бұрын

Bowie…did a ghostly song which resonates with this theme of age reckoning with youthful idealism and revelation….the loneliest guy

@PIPEHEAD Жыл бұрын

The earth is a bitch, we've finished our news - and of course, we stole it from Waiting for Godot - " 'That's how it is on this bitch of an earth ! " .

@masoviper 10 жыл бұрын

yep

@mandys1505 10 жыл бұрын

bbravo

@liimiing 7 жыл бұрын

这一版的语速语调较好，但主演的表情有些夸张。另外，空间设定过大（克拉普的den一定是局促的脏乱的地方啦），舞台也未按要求全部黑暗，桌子的配置也不对（抽屉的朝向是对着观众的）。

@user-mq4wf9rd4j 7 жыл бұрын

先生您好,看見您在這個劇本下的視頻都有著一些自己的看法,想請問您是否對這個劇本非常的熟悉呢? 最近本人在研究貝克特,不知道先生您是否能指點迷津

@jingham2387 2 жыл бұрын

The birthday party...magee

@lukethomson5820 Жыл бұрын

Does anyone know the name of the reorder used in this production?

@TerryUniGeezerPeterson Жыл бұрын

Food!. All right?! Try the wine.

@tuckerscozzafava 3 жыл бұрын

Would love to see Joaquin Phoenix in this role

@someguy957 2 жыл бұрын

You really don't have a clue, do you?

@atis9061 2 жыл бұрын

Pfft