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Krapp’s Last Tape ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’ was written by Samuel Beckett in 1958, an old man reveals his life and assesses his predicament. We learn about him, not from the sixty-nine year old man on stage, but from his thirty-nine year old self on the tape he chooses to listen to. It gives us an idea about the physicality of man. On the ‘awful occasion’ of his birthday, Krapp was then and is now in the habit of reviewing the past year. He isolates memories of value, fertility and nourishment to set against creeping death. Krapp shows signs of obsessive behaviour, he is clever in an odd way and has a satirical look. The performance included conventions of mime from missing props. Rebecca and I started by reading through the script a couple of times. We talked about the character of Krapp. We decided he was quite a lonely and sad person because he recorded tapes of himself. There could have been a reason for this: he could have lost a loved one, he could have experienced something tragic which made him notice the little detail in life, he could have made a big mistake in something so now he anticipates more etc. We focused on the first main bit of stage directions. Firstly we created an image of the