Traveling Jewish Theater
470 Florida St
415.522.0786
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Scene from Endgame
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Feb 22, 2008 – Mar 16, 2008
Daily (schedule)
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- Price
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Various prices
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When Samuel Beckett wrote Endgame in 1957, audiences were more accustomed to stark, conceptual writing and avant-garde theatrics than today. The utterly bizarre one-act play lent itself nicely to the period, both impressing and confounding with strange social and political allegory. The story is simple enough (er, maybe not): a wheelchair-bound man lives with his parents, who are themselves ensconced in a pair of trash cans, and they all heap abuse on their servant. The heart of the work is its dark humor, stylized dialogue, and expressive physicality, and the Cutting Ball Theater company does the challenging modern classic justice.
