Endgame (play) Gascoyne starred in a staging of the play at both the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow and HOME in Manchester. Endgame (play) Endgame, by Samuel Beckett, is a one-act play with four characters. It was originally written in French (entitled "Fin de partie"); Beckett himself translated it into English. The play was first performed in a French-language production at the Royal Court Theatre in London, opening on 3 April 1957. It is commonly considered, along with such works as "Waiting for Godot", to be among Beckett's best works. The play was premiered on 3 April 1957 at the Royal Court Theatre,
Waiting for Godot reception was not particularly favourable, with Frank Rich of "The New York Times" writing, "Audiences will still be waiting for a transcendent "Godot" long after the clowns at Lincoln Center, like so many others passing through Beckett's eternal universe before them, have come and gone." The play was revived in London's West End at the Queen's Theatre in a production directed by Les Blair, which opened on 30 September 1991. This was the first West End revival since the play's British première. Rik Mayall played Vladimir and Adrian Edmondson played Estragon, with Philip Jackson as Pozzo and Christopher Ryan as