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,
Krapp's Last Tape "My Last Duchess" is already planning to marry his next duchess ... Still, one hopes for Krapp's sake that he will be gone before another year is over." In "Waiting for Godot", Beckett uses aspects of Judeo-Christianity as the template for his play, in "Film" the template is the writings of Bishop Berkeley, and in "Krapp's Last Tape", according to Anthony Cronin, he uses Manichaeism as a structural device: The dichotomy of light and dark ... is central to Manichaean doctrine ... Its adherents believed that the world was ruled by evil powers, against which the god of the whole