Endgame

A photo-montage of Peter Searle's production stills with the soundscape by Ronnie McConnell, compiled by Nabil
Shaban of ENDGAME 2007

Theatre Workshop's production of samuel Beckett's ENDGAME is ..."a world where catastrophe, natural or man-made, has driven Beckett's characters to shelter in some form of bunker, where blind and immobile Hamm (Nabil Shaban) relies on Clov (Garry Robson), while Hamm's parents, Nagg (Raymond Short) and Nell (Dolina Maclellan) remain largely hidden in baskets. Supplies are running low and Clov becomes increasingly mutinous as Hamm's demands on him multiply.

The monstrous Hamm seeks reassurance and validation from Clov, who proffers a knitted dog in one of his efforts to placate Hamm's devouring ego.

This scrap of yarn is about the only warm (if not alive) object on Sharmanka's technologically kinetic set. Hamm,
all overgrown infantile ego, posturing in lordly fashion from his gilded cage over the half-lives around him remains
oblivious to the demands and realities of these other lived experiences. Beckett's hell is not so much other people
as the ignorance (in both senses) of our behaviour toward one another.".....

Bill Dunlop - 2007

Company: Theatre Workshop ,
Production: Samuel Beckett (writer), Robert Rae (director), Sergey Jakovsy (lighting designer), Ronnie McConnell
(sound design), Sharmanka (kinetic set), Janis Hart (costume and background set design)
Performers: Nabil Shaban (Hamm), Garry Robson (Clov), Raymond Short (Nagg), Dolina Mclennan (Nell)

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Samuel Beckett
• Hamm
• Clov
• Nagg
• Nell
• Nabil Shaban
• Robert Rae
• SHARMANKA
• Peter Searle
• Garry Robson
• Raymond Short
• Dolina Mclennan
• Theatre Workshop
• Edinburgh
• Janis Hart
• Eduard Bersudsky
• kinetic sculpture
• Tatyana Jakovskaya
• Sergey Jakovsky