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Krapp's Last Tape

7.4 58 mins Drama   TV Movie   2000
Tyrone Productions   Blue Angels Films   Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland   Dublin Gate Theatre   RTÉ   Parallel Films  
Director(s): Atom Egoyan

Release Date: 08 Fri, Sep 2000

In Krapp's Last Tape, which was written in English in 1958, an old man reviews his life and assesses his predicament. We learn about him not from the 69-year-old man on stage, but from his 39-year-old self on the tape he chooses to listen to. On the 'awful occasion' of his birthday, Krapp was then and is now in the habit of reviewing the past year and 'separating the grain from the husks'. He isolates memories of value, fertility and nourishment to set against creeping death 'when all my dust has settled'.

Casts of Krapp's Last Tape

John Hurt

as Krapp

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