Samuel Beckett Krapp's Last Tape / Until Day Do You Part or A Question of Light
First performance in German
Coproduction with the
Münchner Kammerspiele
Duration of the performance: approx. 2 hours
PREMIERE
- 10 August 2009, 19:30
- 11 August 2009, 19:30
- 12 August 2009, 19:30
- 13 August 2009, 19:30
Print programme (PDF)
Jossi Wieler, Stage Director
Anja Rabes, Set and Costume Design
Julia Lochte, Thomas Oberender, Dramaturgy
Stefan Bischoff, Video
Jürgen Tulzer, Lighting
André Jung, Nina Kunzendorf
“One evening, late, in the future”: Krapp, an
ancient, lonely man, speaks to a tape-recorder, just
like every previous year – but now, for the last time.
What remains of life that was worth the effort?
What remains when Krapp separates the chaff from
the wheat? He listens to old recordings and to the
former life they reveal, and when he looks back
upon that life, there was only one prospect of happiness:
the time spent together with his lover.
This woman appears in Peter Handke's new play
Bis dass der Tag euch scheidet oder Eine Frage des
Lichts (Until Day Do You Part or A Question of
Light) and speaks of her life with Monsieur Krapp,
her suffering at Mister Krapp's hands, his silence,
his remoteness. She too separates the chaff from the
wheat and asks what has remained of her time and
herself, at the side of this man who was near to and
far from her like no other. Her monologue is a
woman's answer, a reckoning and a declaration
of love.