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Krapp emerges onstage, coughing and doddering, into a dusty study and sits down at a desk to rehearse an annual ritual: recording a monologue on a chunky, reel-to-reel tape recorder. First ...

There is a desk with a light above it, and on it an old fashioned reel-to-reel tape recorder. When the play was written in 1958, this kind of machine was a rarity other than in professional ...

Lonely and unfulfilled, Krapp has no human company. What he does have is a reel to reel tape recorder on which he chronicles what has - or hasn’t - happened in his life. Oldman doesn’t utter a ...

He taps his desk and tape recorder affectionately, like old friends, until the voice of his 39-year-old self starts spilling uncomfortable memories. Those taps then turn to slaps as Krapp pauses ...

Happy 69th birthday, Krapp, lothario, writer and recorder of fading memories and failing powers. Time to record that last tape, to consign life to the dustbin, like the discarded banana skins.

While he connects with his own past, he also connects with former Krapps, John Hurt and Michael Gambon, dedicating his performance to their memory and even using the same tape recorder as they did.

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