Name: The End Is The Beginning
Start: 2025-09-27T19:30:00+01:00
Location: The Old Library, 10 Lower Bore St, PL31 2JX

A compilation of 16 of Samuel Beckett's plays, prose, poems. An intimate performance offering a new way to experience his language. Meet his characters as they struggle to tell their stories. An entertaining celebration of trying again, failing again, failing better.
“Hilarious, poignant, and compelling drama, beautiful words beautifully delivered”.
In this intimate 80 minute 2-hander performance, our approach to both the comic and the tragic sides of Beckett’s work will give audiences a new way to experience his language. Whether you’re exploring this Nobel Prize winner’s writing for the first time, or building on a body of Beckett knowledge, this theatrical showcase is an encounter not to be missed. Expect a mystery phone call, impossible-to-remove boots, the horrors of home life, a glass of Jamesons, surreal radio broadcasts, a bevvy of bananas, a bicycle from boyhood, classic clowning, beguiling stillness, and audience up on stage. All encased within hilarious, poignant, possibly challenging but always compelling drama!
The 2 actors embody the endeavours of many of Beckett’s absurd and tragic characters, in their struggle to exist and to remember. Most of all, in their struggle out of silence, towards speaking. Structured as a fragmentary progression, its an entertaining celebration of the act of trying again, failing again, failing better. A kind of "best of Beckett" performed by Philip Robinson & Sarah White, directed by Nikki Sved
Exeter Culture Review “Whether you are a Beckett aficionado or a newbie, The End is in the Beginning is not only ‘a performance to witness, to inhabit, to endure’ but also to delight in – and certainly one not to be missed”.
The show is suitable for 16+
Duration: 85 mins (includes interval)