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

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

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

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

Here, forty-six years ago, Gary Oldman made his professional stage debut. Not far away, thirty years after that, I sat ...

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

Just like Lamb, the significantly named Krapp is a man who has given up on ... Nearly four decades since he last took to the stage, after cutting his teeth in London’s Royal Court Theatre ...

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

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 ...

Krapp’s Last Tape is at York Theatre Royal until May 17, 2025. For more information, click here.

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.