Krapp’s Last Tape

Earlier this year, F. Murray Abraham starred in Samuel Beckett's bleakly witty 1958 one-act Krapp's Last Tape at the Irish Rep, playing a bitter man reflecting on his wasted life as he listens to recordings he made 30 years earlier. Now the Irish film and stage star Stephen Rea (The Crying Game) gives another Krapp in a two-week run at the Skirball Center. This iteration, directed by Vicky Featherstone, ran in London earlier this year after prior engagements in Ireland and Australia; the tapes that Krapp listens to onstage were recorded by Rea himself 12 years ago, in anticipation that he would one day play this role.