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📍 The Last Tape. Not I — SAMUEL BECKETT● directed by
Ivan Dobchev
● Malin Krastev – Krapp
● Neda Spasova – Mouth
● Stanislav Ganchev – Voice (voice-over recording)
● Nikola Toromanov – set design
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Nothing is more grotesque than unhappiness.
Nothing is more real than your own You.
Nothing is more essential than the inessential.
WE ARE NOT IN EXILE, WE ARE ON A MISSION!
Through the WORDS he had gone to the edge of something straining towards Nothingness. Well, it finally reached that limit. To put the WORDS into Death or Death into WORDS – He already knows how it is. ONLY HE... It all begins in the first lines of Molloy when a stalker, probably Molloy himself, narrating in the first person, hidden on a height behind a rock, observes two people who meet on the way out of town. An unforgettable image. Coming from nowhere, going nowhere with their clownish gait, the two Beckett walkers feel watched, like Vladimir, like Winnie and Krapp, and that mad Mouth in Not I, and everyone else. There is something to be seen and said, ill seen, ill spoken. TO SEE THE SEEING, EYES INTO EYES. TO SAY WHAT IS SAID, WORDS WITHIN WORDS; on the day when the writer realizes that he must advance steadily in the direction – WORSE SEEN, EVEN WORSE SAID – our Proust, our Joyce, our Céline of the second half of the century was born. But also our Dante, our Pascal, our Shakespeare.
Alfred Simon: Beckett
I want to dedicate this encroachment of mine on Beckett to the memory of two of my dear friends – Krikor Azarian and Naum Shopov, who in the sunset of the so-called "mature socialist realism" had dared to stage The Last Tape. An unforgettable show! I have no words to describe the effect it had on all our theatrical thinking at the time. I very much wish that our play would produce this effect on our present state of theatre.
Ivan Dobchev
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Театрална работилница "Сфумато", Столична регионална здравна инспекция, Улица Димитър Греков, 1527 София, България, Sofia, Bulgaria
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