by Samuel Beckett
directed by Josh Short
directed by Josh Short
APRIL 9 - 25
LIVE AT THE WATERFIRE ARTS CENTER
LIVE AT THE WATERFIRE ARTS CENTER
KRAPP'S LAST TAPE
by Samuel Beckett
directed by Josh Short
directed by Josh Short
PRESENTED LIVE IN THE MAIN HALL AT
THE WATERFIRE ARTS CENTER
APRIL 9 - 25, 2021
View press release.
THE WATERFIRE ARTS CENTER
APRIL 9 - 25, 2021
View press release.
A tragedy in one act for a lone actor, a tape recorder, and many, many bananas, Krapp's Last Tape is one of Samuel Beckett's most personal works for the stage-a feat of great precision and tense economy. Featuring discreet details from the writer's own life, this dramatization of the messy truths of memory and time illuminates the predicament we face when we become strangers to our former selves.
Tom Roberts plays the titular Krapp, an embittered and dyspeptic man who marks the occasion of his 69th birthday by revisiting his 39-year-old self. Veering from outrage to contemplation, Krapp exhibits the ticks and tocks of a beaten man whose spirit unravels as the tapes unspool in "all that old misery" of lost time.
RUN TIME: Approx. 50 minutes
PLEASE NOTE: In accordance with Dept. of Health guidelines masks and face-coverings will be required by guests at all times. Ticket sales for the production are extremely limited and advance registration for all performances is required - no walk-up tickets will be available at the door. All audience members will required to complete and submit a Health & Safety Screener before attending.
Tom Roberts plays the titular Krapp, an embittered and dyspeptic man who marks the occasion of his 69th birthday by revisiting his 39-year-old self. Veering from outrage to contemplation, Krapp exhibits the ticks and tocks of a beaten man whose spirit unravels as the tapes unspool in "all that old misery" of lost time.
RUN TIME: Approx. 50 minutes
PLEASE NOTE: In accordance with Dept. of Health guidelines masks and face-coverings will be required by guests at all times. Ticket sales for the production are extremely limited and advance registration for all performances is required - no walk-up tickets will be available at the door. All audience members will required to complete and submit a Health & Safety Screener before attending.
PRODUCTION PHOTOS
CAST + CREATIVE TEAM
Tom Roberts as KRAPP
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KRAPP'S LAST TAPE
By Samuel Beckett Directed by Josh Short Costume Design by Erin Meghan Donnelly Lighting Design by Max Ponticelli Sound Design by Andy Russ Set & Props Design by Monica Shinn Production Photos by Erin X. Smithers Stage Management by Annalee Cavallaro Assistant Stage Management by Shoshana Adler Front of House Management by Christine Treglia, Renee Bessette Advising Epidemiologist - Brandon Marshall, PhD. |
CAST & CREATIVE TEAM BIOS
Tom Roberts, Krapp
Wilbury Group: Miss You Like Hell; RESCUE! Or, The Fish; The Skin of Our Teeth (George Antrobus) Other Theatres (select): Enron, August: Osage County, Little Foxes, A Flea in Her Ear, An Inspector Calls, Auntie Mame, Mornings at Seven and 25 others (2nd Story Theatre); Annie, Little Mermaid, Wizard of Oz (Matunuck Theatre-by-the-Sea). Tom is the author of seven books and has written and produced four historical documentaries that garnered a total of eight regional Emmy nominations. He was also the executive producer of the documentary film, Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date, which was nominated for the Academy Award in 1986. Tom is a history professor at RISD, where he received the 2017 Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2015, he co-hosted two evenings of films on Turner Classic Movies with Robert Osborne. In 2016, he received the RI Council for the Humanities Lifetime Achievement Award.
Wilbury Group: Miss You Like Hell; RESCUE! Or, The Fish; The Skin of Our Teeth (George Antrobus) Other Theatres (select): Enron, August: Osage County, Little Foxes, A Flea in Her Ear, An Inspector Calls, Auntie Mame, Mornings at Seven and 25 others (2nd Story Theatre); Annie, Little Mermaid, Wizard of Oz (Matunuck Theatre-by-the-Sea). Tom is the author of seven books and has written and produced four historical documentaries that garnered a total of eight regional Emmy nominations. He was also the executive producer of the documentary film, Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date, which was nominated for the Academy Award in 1986. Tom is a history professor at RISD, where he received the 2017 Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2015, he co-hosted two evenings of films on Turner Classic Movies with Robert Osborne. In 2016, he received the RI Council for the Humanities Lifetime Achievement Award.
Samuel Beckett, Playwright
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)is widely recognized as one of the greatest dramatists of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. Mr. Beckett is most renowned for his play Waiting for Godot which launched his career in theatre. He then went on to write numerous successful full-length plays, including Endgame in 1957, Krapp’s Last Tape in 1958, and Happy Days in 1960. Mr. Beckett received his first commission for radio from the BBC in 1956 for All That Fall. This was followed by a further five plays for radio including Embers, Words and Music, and Cascando. Like no other dramatist before him, Mr. Beckett’s works capture the pathos and ironies of modern life yet still maintain his faith in man’s capacity for compassion and survival no matter how absurd his environment may have become.
Josh Short, Director
Wilbury Group: Decameron, Providence; RESCUE! Or, The Fish; Fun Home; The Pirates of Penzance; The Skin of Our Teeth; Spring Awakening; Ui [oo-ey]; Jerusalem; Dry Land; Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead; This Beautiful City; Blasted; Detroit; The Threepenny Opera; The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity; Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson; The Lieutenant of Inishmore. Josh Short is the Artistic Director of Providence's award-winning Wilbury Theatre Group, where he’s produced many workshop and full-scale productions of work by local and world-renown artists with a commitment to artistic excellence and community engagement. For more about Josh, visit thewilburygroup.org/leadership
Annalee Cavallaro, Stage Manager
Wilbury Group: God Talks to An Agnostic; Invoice for Emotional Labor; Decameron; Fire Flowers and a Time Machine; Our Story // Our Song; Constellations. Other Theatres (select): Hedda Gabler, Street Car, Morality Play, Marie Antoinette,Winters Tale, The Rant, King Elizabeth, American Buffalo, Uncle Vanya, Importance of Being Earnest, SantaLand, Night of the Iguana, True West (GAMM Theatre); Taming of a Shew, Venus, Good Person of Szechwan (Brown/Trinity Rep.)
Erin Meghan Donnelly, Costume Design
Wilbury Group: Constellations; Dance Nation; You Got Older; How I Learned to Drive, The Pirates of Penzance; The Flick; The Skin of Our Teeth; Church; The Caretaker; Spring Awakening; Mr. Burns, a post-electric play; Betrayal; Ui [oo-ey]; Stupid Fucking Bird; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Other Theatres (select): To Kill a Mockingbird, Blues for Mister Charlie, Troilus and Cressida (Breadloaf School of English). Miss Donnelly is a proud member of the Trinity Rep costume shop where she works as Asst. Cutter/Draper and Craftsperson.
Max Ponticelli, Lighting Design
Wilbury Group: Constellations (2019); Hype Man: a break-beat play, How I Learned to Drive (TD), FRINGEPVD (TD), Jerusalem (Lighting); Other Theatres (select): The Wolves, Women & War (URI); Designer/TD Dancing Lessons, Baby with the Bathwater, The Tribute Artist (2nd Story); Designer/TD Alice in Wonderland at Plymouth Plantation, An Awfully Big Adventure (Bridgewater State); Fight Dir. Henry IV Part 1, Hearts Like Fists (Clark University); Max is the General Manager at The Wilbury Theatre Group, and a full-time Lecturer and Designer for the University of Rhode Island Theatre Department. For more about Max, visit thewilburygroup.org/leadership
Andy Russ, Sound Design
Wilbury Group: God Talks to An Agnostic; Constellations; Fun Home Red Bike (lights/sound); Hype Man: a break-beat play (lights/sound); How I Learned to Drive (lights/sound/projections); The Pirates of Penzance (lights/sound); The Skin of Our Teeth (lights); The Caretaker(lights/sound); Spring Awakening (lights); Mr. Burns (lights/sound); Betrayal (lights/sound); Di and Viv and Rose (sound); 10,000 Things (lights); Ui (oo-ey) (lights/sound); Jerusalem (sound); Cain + Abel (sound); Andy is the Artistic Director of Passive Aggressive Novelty Company, based in Providence, RI.
Monica Shinn, Set & Props Design
Wilbury Group: Dance Nation; You Got Older; Fun Home; Blasted; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; Dry Land; Jerusalem; 10,000 Things; How I Learned to Drive; The Flick. An accomplished designer, painter, steel fabricator, and electrician; having a technician’s knowledge and a fine art training informs all of Monica Shinn's design work and her painting. As a theatrical designer, Monica's work has appeared with Perishable Theater, the Providence Black Repertory Company, and the Brown Playwriting Festival. As a visual artist Monica's paintings describe her neighborhood, bits and pieces of daily life in Providence and other places. She composes as a colorist, pushing depth and dimension with the force of color rather than traditional time perspective. Her drawings tend more toward reality than realism and her spare works on paper are often achingly stark and true. www.monicashinn.com
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)is widely recognized as one of the greatest dramatists of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. Mr. Beckett is most renowned for his play Waiting for Godot which launched his career in theatre. He then went on to write numerous successful full-length plays, including Endgame in 1957, Krapp’s Last Tape in 1958, and Happy Days in 1960. Mr. Beckett received his first commission for radio from the BBC in 1956 for All That Fall. This was followed by a further five plays for radio including Embers, Words and Music, and Cascando. Like no other dramatist before him, Mr. Beckett’s works capture the pathos and ironies of modern life yet still maintain his faith in man’s capacity for compassion and survival no matter how absurd his environment may have become.
Josh Short, Director
Wilbury Group: Decameron, Providence; RESCUE! Or, The Fish; Fun Home; The Pirates of Penzance; The Skin of Our Teeth; Spring Awakening; Ui [oo-ey]; Jerusalem; Dry Land; Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead; This Beautiful City; Blasted; Detroit; The Threepenny Opera; The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity; Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson; The Lieutenant of Inishmore. Josh Short is the Artistic Director of Providence's award-winning Wilbury Theatre Group, where he’s produced many workshop and full-scale productions of work by local and world-renown artists with a commitment to artistic excellence and community engagement. For more about Josh, visit thewilburygroup.org/leadership
Annalee Cavallaro, Stage Manager
Wilbury Group: God Talks to An Agnostic; Invoice for Emotional Labor; Decameron; Fire Flowers and a Time Machine; Our Story // Our Song; Constellations. Other Theatres (select): Hedda Gabler, Street Car, Morality Play, Marie Antoinette,Winters Tale, The Rant, King Elizabeth, American Buffalo, Uncle Vanya, Importance of Being Earnest, SantaLand, Night of the Iguana, True West (GAMM Theatre); Taming of a Shew, Venus, Good Person of Szechwan (Brown/Trinity Rep.)
Erin Meghan Donnelly, Costume Design
Wilbury Group: Constellations; Dance Nation; You Got Older; How I Learned to Drive, The Pirates of Penzance; The Flick; The Skin of Our Teeth; Church; The Caretaker; Spring Awakening; Mr. Burns, a post-electric play; Betrayal; Ui [oo-ey]; Stupid Fucking Bird; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Other Theatres (select): To Kill a Mockingbird, Blues for Mister Charlie, Troilus and Cressida (Breadloaf School of English). Miss Donnelly is a proud member of the Trinity Rep costume shop where she works as Asst. Cutter/Draper and Craftsperson.
Max Ponticelli, Lighting Design
Wilbury Group: Constellations (2019); Hype Man: a break-beat play, How I Learned to Drive (TD), FRINGEPVD (TD), Jerusalem (Lighting); Other Theatres (select): The Wolves, Women & War (URI); Designer/TD Dancing Lessons, Baby with the Bathwater, The Tribute Artist (2nd Story); Designer/TD Alice in Wonderland at Plymouth Plantation, An Awfully Big Adventure (Bridgewater State); Fight Dir. Henry IV Part 1, Hearts Like Fists (Clark University); Max is the General Manager at The Wilbury Theatre Group, and a full-time Lecturer and Designer for the University of Rhode Island Theatre Department. For more about Max, visit thewilburygroup.org/leadership
Andy Russ, Sound Design
Wilbury Group: God Talks to An Agnostic; Constellations; Fun Home Red Bike (lights/sound); Hype Man: a break-beat play (lights/sound); How I Learned to Drive (lights/sound/projections); The Pirates of Penzance (lights/sound); The Skin of Our Teeth (lights); The Caretaker(lights/sound); Spring Awakening (lights); Mr. Burns (lights/sound); Betrayal (lights/sound); Di and Viv and Rose (sound); 10,000 Things (lights); Ui (oo-ey) (lights/sound); Jerusalem (sound); Cain + Abel (sound); Andy is the Artistic Director of Passive Aggressive Novelty Company, based in Providence, RI.
Monica Shinn, Set & Props Design
Wilbury Group: Dance Nation; You Got Older; Fun Home; Blasted; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; Dry Land; Jerusalem; 10,000 Things; How I Learned to Drive; The Flick. An accomplished designer, painter, steel fabricator, and electrician; having a technician’s knowledge and a fine art training informs all of Monica Shinn's design work and her painting. As a theatrical designer, Monica's work has appeared with Perishable Theater, the Providence Black Repertory Company, and the Brown Playwriting Festival. As a visual artist Monica's paintings describe her neighborhood, bits and pieces of daily life in Providence and other places. She composes as a colorist, pushing depth and dimension with the force of color rather than traditional time perspective. Her drawings tend more toward reality than realism and her spare works on paper are often achingly stark and true. www.monicashinn.com
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An award-winning*, not-for-profit professional theatre company, the Wilbury Theatre Group engages our community in thought-provoking conversation through new works, reimagined classics and adventurous playmaking. We are idealistic, ambitious, and stubborn in our resolve to create theatre that entertains, enlightens, and inspires.
*WINNER of the 2018 National Theatre Company Grant from the American Theatre Wing (The Tony Awards).
*WINNER of the 2018 National Theatre Company Grant from the American Theatre Wing (The Tony Awards).
