Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-26-2021
Abstract
Sometimes a theatrical production comes along that illuminates a familiar text, bringing parts of the story into a new focus or revealing other parts hitherto unseen. The Endgame Project, conceived by veteran New York actors Dan Moran and John Christopher Jones, is one of these productions. In this conception of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, Clov and Hamm, two characters with diminishing physical abilities, are played by Jones and Moran, two seasoned actors who are both living with Parkinson’s disease. The Endgame Project creates a powerful joining of Beckett’s script and the Parkinson’s disease that holds the principal actors in its grip
Published In
Jennifer Cavenaugh (2021). On the anguish of going: an actor’s Endgame. Text and Performance Quarterly. DOI: 10.1080/10462937.2021.1969425
Publication Title
Text and Performance Quarterly
DOI
10.1080/10462937.2021.1969425