Endgame

Date/Time
Date(s) - 7 Jun 2017
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM

Location
State Theatre Centre Of WA



GoTheatrical! app captioned performance on Wednesday, 7 June 2017 at 7.30pm.

Booking Details: http://www.bsstc.com.au/season-2017/endgame/

Please ensure that you have downloaded the GoTheatrical app to your mobile or tablet device before the performance.  A small number of devices are available to borrow from the venue.
Four characters locked up in a refuge. Is it the end? Much is at stake.

The relationship between Hamm, the blind and cantankerous master unable to stand, and Clov, his long suffering servant son who cannot sit, is beginning to strain. Nagg and Nell, Hamm’s decrepit parents living in garbage cans, are not helping matters. They too seem stuck between light and dark, life and death. Ruminating on past deeds and actions that, at their core, are meaningless.

This tragicomedy reveals the constant duel between tyranny and submission and the need and desire to break free of the cycle. Confusion reigns – is it the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning? Beckett (awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature) considered this his favourite play, even over Waiting for Godot. As the chess game reference implies, Endgame is about how or why one bothers to move at all, when all moves lead to death.

Black Swan welcomes the return of Founding Artistic Director Andrew Ross, to direct this rarely seen and engaging piece of absurd theatre.

By Arrangement with the Licensor, The Samuel Beckett Estate, c/- Curtis Brown (Aust) Pty Ltd.

 

Loading Map....