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A review by valtimke
Endgame by Samuel Beckett
5.0
The third play by Beckett I've read ("Waiting for Godot" and "Breath" as well), I read this for a class recently. I might even like it more than "Waiting for Godot" but I'm still letting a lot of its elements sink in.
One of the most important things discussed in my class is that the audience is in a parallel state to Hamm, one of four characters, that claims to be living out the middle of his life. We experience the world as Hamm does, in a weird way, and I'm not fully sure I can grasp the magnitude of that idea. This play is absurd, bizarre, and in the end another heartbreaking cyclical, genius play that Beckett put together. My favorite part of this play was analyzing what it would take for each character to enter back into life; for Nagg, it is a sugarplum, as if the pleasure and sweetness is all they have energy left enough to experience.
One of the most important things discussed in my class is that the audience is in a parallel state to Hamm, one of four characters, that claims to be living out the middle of his life. We experience the world as Hamm does, in a weird way, and I'm not fully sure I can grasp the magnitude of that idea. This play is absurd, bizarre, and in the end another heartbreaking cyclical, genius play that Beckett put together. My favorite part of this play was analyzing what it would take for each character to enter back into life; for Nagg, it is a sugarplum, as if the pleasure and sweetness is all they have energy left enough to experience.