Fin de partie

by Samuel Beckett

(Yale University, 2018)

Fini. C’est fini. Ça va finir. Ça va peut-être finir.

Clov in Fin de partie

Beckett’s Endgame as you’ve never seen it before: in French.

One in a chair. Two in trash cans. One on his feet. All held here by their seemingly inescapable relationship to each other. In the banality of their speech, a man and his servant reveal glimmers of their past and the uncertain future. Repetition and stasis seem to prevail, yet memory, frustration, and longing ripple beneath the surface, threatening disruption.

Performed in French (with English supertitles), following Beckett’s original French text with new revisions by the playwright, translated into French by the director (me!).