Don McLennan Film Festival. In 1985 he started Ukiyo Theatre with Friedrich. They co-produced a trio of plays by Samuel Beckett, "Waiting For Godot", Krapp's Last Tape" and "Endgame" performed by the American theater group San Quentin Drama Workshop. The plays were directed by Beckett and toured Australia, Singapore and Italy. In 1990 McLennan moved to Los Angeles and established himself as a scriptwriter. He wrote scripts for Dimension Films, and several other leading production companies. He continues to direct documentaries, PSA's for Federal and State Elections, and TV reality programs. Don McLennan Don McLennan (born 1950) is an Australian film director,
Krapp's Last Tape first draft. The first appearance of a title was "a manuscript edition to Typescript 2: "Crapp’s Last Tape""; the more familiar Germanic spelling came later. The name Krapp with its excremental connotations had been used before by Beckett however. In his first play, "Eleutheria", dating back to 1947, the protagonist is Victor Krap, a young man who has decided to retreat from life and do nothing. He has been described as a world-weary anti-hero, a failed writer and seedy solipsist, a clear prototype for the later Krapp. When the thirty-nine-year-old Krapp is talking about his neighbour's ritual singing in the