SAMUEL BECKETT, FOOTFALLS
Google Books link: Footfalls
Beckett on Film link: Footfalls
Why: Maybe besides "Not I", Fottfalls contains the most haunting monologues and lines Beckett wrote for stage. A short play of incredible intensity. As always there is not interpretation for a Beckettian play, but the structures involved reverberate deeply on many levels. To me this is a play of a radiant austere beauty.
Footfalls was written in English between March and December 1975. May, wrapped in tatters, paces back and forth engaging in conversation with the disembodied voice of her mother. In the second scene, May's voice becomes subsumed into her mother's. She paces ever more slowly as the play progresses, and the light dims, so that by the fourth and final scene there is no trace of her.
Possibly to short on its own but could be framed with other Beckett texts and shorts.
How: Stark simple stage, straightforward adaption.
Who: Two women.
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