Wheaton Wire

Issue date: 9/12/07 Section: Arts & Culture

Media Credit: Marina White '11 Meaghan Kenny '08 and Mike ZZwolinski '08 practice a scene from Beckett's Endgame.

Media Credit: Marina White '11 Mike Zwolinski '08 and Michael Micalizzi '07 rehearse.

Samuel Beckett's play Endgame will be performed by the Wheaton Theatre Department this weekend. Endgame is widely considered to be one of the playwright's greatest works, along with Waiting for Godot, which was performed by the Wheaton Theatre department in 2005.

Endgame is a one-act play with only four characters. The protagonist is Hamm, an elderly blind man confined to a wheelchair Clov, his companion and servant, ironically, is unable to sit down. The setting is somewhere and sometime when civilization and most life forms are gone. Secondary characters are Nagg and Nell, Hamm's parents, who are perpetually bickering. The characters seem to be stuck in a gloomy, isolated state of mind with no future in sight.

As with most of Beckett's plays, Endgame is darkly pessimistic, and explores the cruel humor of the human condition. Endgame is a play loaded with symbolism and allows the audience to leave with their own interpretation.

Directed by Professor David Fox, the play features Mike Zwolinski, '08, Mike Micalizzi, '07, Meghan Kenny, '08, and Samuel Brown, '09. It will be performed in Kresge Experimental Theater, Watson Fine Arts at 7:30 pm Thursday the 13th to Saturday the 15th. Reserve tickets by calling 508-286-3575.

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