CRITIC'S PICK! “The humor he built into that text, he left more space for humanness than the play’s reputation suggests.”
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“The play makes the grim assertion that, even in the worst of times, people remain stuck on their own hamster wheels of nostalgia and resentment...If we can’t break the patterns that send us hurtling toward an unlivable future, at least we can laugh at them.”
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“This new production is dismaying in its simplicity but surprising in how many laughs it finds amid the gray.”
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“One could argue the point, but certainly not while under the mesmerizing spell that Beckett’s play casts in this expert production, which is supremely funny but still cuts painfully close to the bone.”
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“Bitter is the operative word here, for ‘Endgame’ is a far more acrid depiction of end times than any apocalyptic filmic extravaganza.”
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“Beckett's plays can be quite funny, in an existentially dreadful kind of way, and ‘Endgame,’ while not a knee-slapper, has its fair share of solid laughs.”
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“Bill Irwin and John Douglas Thompson bring to Endgame something I've never known it to have: grandeur. It's a seedy grandeur, to be sure, but impressive for all of that…The pairing of a great classical actor with a wickedly inventive clown yields a kind of existential vaudeville, a knockabout comedy producing laughter with a death rattle inside it. To my mind, is the first unmissable production of 2023.”
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“To these eyes, it's a more than competent production, and if you're already partial to the author's cold emotional landscape and mystifying existential abstractions, you'll probably eat it up.”
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