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Endgame is an absurdist, tragicomic one-act play by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett.It is about a blind, paralyzed, domineering elderly man, his geriatric parents, and his servile companion in an abandoned house in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, who await an unspecified "end".
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All That Fall is a one-act radio play by Samuel Beckett produced following a request [1] from the BBC. It was written in English and completed in September 1956. The autograph copy is titled Lovely Day for the Races. It was published in French, in a translation by Robert Pinget revised by Beckett himself, [2] as Tous ceux qui tombent.
Beckett went on to write successful full-length plays, including Fin de partie (1957), Krapp's Last Tape (1958, written in English), Happy Days (1961, also written in English), and Play (1963). In 1961, Beckett received the International Publishers' Formentor Prize in recognition of his work, which he shared that year with Jorge Luis Borges .
Like many of Beckett's works, the play was originally written in French (Acte sans paroles I), being translated into English by Beckett himself. It was written in 1956 following a request from the dancer Deryk Mendel and first performed on 3 April 1957 at the Royal Court Theatre in London. On that occasion it followed a performance of Endgame.
Play is a one-act play by Samuel Beckett. It was written between 1962 and 1963 and first produced in German as Spiel on 14 June 1963 at the Ulmer Theatre in Ulm-Donau , Germany, directed by Deryk Mendel , with Nancy Illig (W1), Sigfrid Pfeiffer (W2) and Gerhard Winter (M).
The Impossible Itself is a 2010 documentary film produced and directed by Jacob Adams, covering the 1957 San Francisco Actor's Workshop production of the Samuel Beckett stage play Waiting For Godot that was taken to San Quentin Prison and performed before its inmates, with an examination of an earlier incarnation of Godot as performed by inmates at the Luttringhausen Prison in Germany in 1953.
Endgame, a 1957 play by Samuel Beckett; Endgame (Jensen books), a two-volume work written by Derrick Jensen; Endgame: The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror, a non-fiction book by Thomas McInerney and Paul E. Vallely; Endgame: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Bobby Fischer, a non-fiction book by Frank Brady on chess champion Bobby Fischer