Samuel Beckett: KRAPP'S LAST TAPE

"Many details in the play coincide with real life. The play consists of an elderly person's recollections, reflections, analysis of his life, and condemnation of the mistakes he has made. All these paradoxes do take place in one's life, even though it seems to them that their life is calm, gentle, and logical. In reality it is full of different errors, surprises, unjustified and inexplicable things. All of this can be found in Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape," – says J. Budraitis.

"Beckett's plays are like stones. Purified existentialism and strong characters do not leave room for interpretation. You either become the symbol or not. There is nothing to act. I would never have staged "Krapp's Last Tape" if not for Budraitis, who may very well become the Beckettian symbol due to his age, experience and intellect" – says Koršunovas on the iron logic of the play.

At first glance, there is nothing special , either in acting, or directing. Yet, the play vividlyconveys the essence of Beckett's texts. After all, they can only be properly understood when the opportunity to hear their sacred sound is created, and Koršunovas is a director who raises every play he directs, whether modern or classic, to the level of modern mythologisation.

If we agree with the statement that every work of art (not necessarily theatre) is a flat pattern of the essential moment of a persons's life, then "Krapp's Last Tape" by Beckett-Koršunovas-Budraitis can be understood as an impressive scenic flat pattern of the above described moment...