Endgame
Description
Veteran director Andrei Belgrader offers a taut and austerely compelling production of Samuel Beckett’s bleak masterpiece. Max Casella makes a sympathetic Clov, the surly clown tending to his master ward, the blind, crippled Hamm (an inconsistent, roaring John Turturro); Elaine Stritch and Alvin Epstein bob in and out of ash cans in this absurdist classic. Endgame is a sardonic tragedy about many deep things—the curse of living, the cruelty of time, the pain of love—but what comes across forcefully in this version is how much it is an extraordinarily sad depiction of fathers and sons.—DC
When
May 18 2008 3pm