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Endgame review " Frankie Boyle brings fresh life to Beckett's dystopia

by Helen Meany

Gate theatre, DublinThe comedian turns on the roguish charm as part of a dazzling cast that inject new poignancy into the absurdist classic One of Samuel Beckett's most celebrated plays, Endgame can seem unapproachably austere in its depiction of a living hell. In Danya Taymor's vibrant new production, the abstraction of four characters trapped in a room after some unspecified catastrophe has new resonance: there is …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 6:33am on February 18, 2022