The director, Bobbi Masters is approaching her production of Endgame as a ghostly vaudeville set in a post-apocalyptic purgatory. Through elements of clowning and faded relics of lives post-lived, she imagines the piece as a tragicomic séance- a summoning of laughter from the ashes of meaning. Like his other works, it's both philosophical and very funny.
According to Beckett scholar, Ruby Cohn, Endgame was Beckett's favorite play, and he chose this play to be the first play that he directed.
The play, Fin de Partie, (Endgame) was written 1952, as a work in progress, but not completed until 1956.
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