KRAPP, 39 Gets UK Premiere this Fall

The New York Times reports today that Michael Laurence's Krapp, 39, the solo show that premiered in the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival and ran Off Broadway at the Soho Playhouse in 2009 will make its UK premiere this fall, with productions in Dublin and London. Krapp, 39 will play the Tristan Bates Theater in London's Covent Garden from November 22 through December 4, and from December 13 through December 22, with a stop at Axis-Ballymun in Dublin Dec from 7 through December 11. George Demas directs.

With over 100 performances off Broadway, Krapp, 39 was one of the most critically acclaimed and celebrated show of the season. Krapp, 39 is a voyeuristic prefiguring of Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, and a deeply personal window on one man's last moment of youth. Reeling on his 39th birthday, an actor's obsessive

identification with Beckett's famous character compels him to examine his own quixotic life and failures. His hilarious and heart breaking self-scrutiny plays out through intimate audio tapes, archival video, raw journal entries, haunted letters, racy confessions, and recorded conversations with the living and the lost.

For more information, visit http://www.krapp39.com.

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