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 up simply leaving the ball with the creature even though a part of him regrets not hanging onto it as some kind of memento. Krapp at 69 is more interested in his younger self's use of the rather archaic word "viduity" (Beckett had originally used "widowhood" in early drafts) than in the reaction of the voice on the tape to their mother's passing. He stops listening to look up the word in a large dictionary. He returns to the tape. The voice starts to describe the revelation he experienced at the end of a pier. Krapp grows impatient and gets