Krapp's Last Tape performance, both of which have been shown on television. There have been several musical adaptations of "Krapp's Last Tape", most notably the opera "Krapp, ou, La dernière bande" by composer Marcel Mihalovici. American composer Earl Kim alludes to the work within his "Gooseberries, she said" (1967), part of the four-part cycle "Exercises en Route". The Hungarian composer Gyula Csapó has created the work "Krapp's Last Tape –- after Samuel Beckett" (1975) loosely inspired by Beckett's play. This theatrical work is for a "violinist-actor," a tape recorder, four spotlights and a sine wave generator. In 1999, the English experimental composer, Michael
Krapp's Last Tape Parsons, adapted "Krapp's Last Tape" for piano, two pre-recorded pianos, and voice on tape. The piece, specifically written for John Tilbury, was called "Krapp Music". The play was memorably parodied in the television sketch comedy "The Fast Show", in which – as a reference to Max Wall – fictional music hall comedian Arthur Atkinson played a comically more stoic version of Krapp. It is also the title of a track on Fredrik Thordendal's solo album Sol Niger Within. A prefiguring of the play, titled, "Krapp, 39" written and performed by Michael Laurence and directed by George Demas, premiered at the