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 déclassé but still indubitably Irish and thus ideally fitted for the performance of Beckett ... As an actor, he had the good sense to see that one played Beckett for the weight and mood of the words and the situation without bothering about the ultimate philosophical import. The Canadian actor Donald Davis played Krapp in the North American premiere production of "Krapp's Last Tape". "The New York Times" reported that Davis "won an Obie Award in 1960 for his performance as the lonely, solitary Krapp, playing the tapes of his life and re-experiencing decades of regret." Later, "Krapp's Last Tape,"