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No Samuel Beckett play is set in stone

18 September 2021

9:00 AM

18 September 2021

9:00 AM

The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett: Krapp’s Last Tape James Knowlson

Faber, pp.320, 40

The Shorter Plays S.E. Gontarski

Faber, pp.512, 40

It must have been shortly after my first performance of Not I in London in 2005 when Matthew Evans, the former chairman of Faber, handed me a volume, published in 1992, of The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett.

He told me that the series was no longer in print and therefore difficult to get hold of, but he dearly wanted me to have this copy.

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