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Krapp's Last Taperight
Julian Curry as Krapp in London Krapp's Last Tape is a play by Samuel Beckett. It deals with technology as a means of creating narrative and story, and reacting to history. Krapp, an aging man (with a fondness for bananas), finds a tape, "box three, spool five", in which the voice of his younger self recounts details about his life at that time. Krapp is dissatisfied with his younger self on listening: he feels he was pompous and had misaligned priorities - Krapp listens particularly to his younger self recounting his past loves (and perhaps sexual encounters, but this is not explicitly stated), especially with one woman, one time on a barge. Krapp, finally, records a reel reflecting on listening to his younger self- "Just been listening to that stupid bastard I took myself for thirty years ago"- before wrenching it off the recorder. External links
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