The star actor returns to the theater where he started almost a half-century ago, with Samuel Beckett’s bleak one-man play.

The actor performs Samuel Beckett’s melancholy solo piece at the York Theatre Royal, where he made his professional debut in 1979 ...

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The production marks Oldman's return to the stage after 37 years but ultimately fails to live up to that homecoming ...

He who takes on Krapp is on stage for just 50 minutes, gets fewer lines than the voice of the tape recording they are listening to, coughs and sighs as much as they speak and must be fascinating ...

Back on the stage where he made his theatre debut in 1979, the Slow Horses star pours everything into Beckett’s bleak ...

Yours will not either. So get that support.” Then he left, promising to play back the tape at a future date. A Last Try. The gesture was of no avail. Last week President-elect Leoni, a dour ...

But few give quite as much notice of an event as the announcement of two productions of Krapp’s Last Tape that won’t be staged for more than a decade. On April 13th, Samuel Beckett’s ...

The production, running until 17 May, marks a homecoming for Oldman, who began his professional acting career at the venue ...

Gary Oldman is a devastatingly stoic Krapp in his own production of the Beckett classic at York Theatre Royal ...

SYNOPSIS: Every year on his birthday, Krapp has tape-recorded an assessment of his life so far. Now, having just turned 69, he listens with mixed emotions to the tape he made 30 years earlier.

Time to record that last tape, to consign life to the dustbin, like the discarded banana skins. A life that has turned to, well, krapp. Oldman, now playing an old man, is full of memories too at ...