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Starring:
Richard Briers, Adrian Scarborough (Shared role until 24th October) then Simon McBurney , Miriam Margolyes
Writer:
Samuel Beckett
Complicite present a new producton of Samuel Becketts classic play Endgame directed by Simon McBurney with Richard Briers in in London this autumn for 78 performances only. In Beckett’s one act play the aged and blind Hamm (Richard Briers) and his servant Clov (Adrian Scarborough) co-exist in a mutually dependent and fractious relationship, with only Hamm’s parents, Nell (Miriam Margolyes) and Nagg, legless from a biking accident for company. Directed by Simon McBurney, Design by Tim Hatley, Sound by Christopher Shutt and Costumes by Christina Cunningham, the production plays at the Duchess Theatre from 18 September until 5 December.
Press Quotes
‘Powerful’
‘Mark Rylance gives a mesmerising performance’
‘Mark Rylance’s earth-moving performance’
The Express ****
‘It is not easy to imagine a much better production of the play than this one’
Evening Standard ****
‘A brilliant Complicite production of Endgame’
‘Simon McBurney …is the greatest theatre-maker of his generation; Mark Rylance… is the greatest actor…Now they are together on stage at last’
‘Rylance’s fantastically funny and painful portrayal’
The Independent ****
‘The incarcerated Nagg and Nell are superbly played by Tom Hickey and Miriam Margolyes’
The Guardian
‘A pure delight’
‘Simon McBurney’s superb production’
‘I haven’t seen a better production of the play than this’
‘That such a dark, unsparing play can leave its audience feeling so richly rewarded is one of the mysteries of great art’
Daily Telegraph *****
‘Sheer pleasure’
‘…thrillingly alive’
‘I have rarely enjoyed a night of baffling hopelessness so much’
The Times ****
‘Dazzling’
Observer
‘Beckett’s despair is as bracing as ever’
Sunday Times
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