School of Arts and Sciences
Department of Communication Arts
Student Theatre Production
Endgame
Written by Samuel Beckett
Directed by Nur Fakhoury
Monday January 14th, 2013
6:15 PM
Gulbenkian Theatre - LAU - Fine Arts Bldg
Cast
Nicolas Karam
Youssef Salame
Mahmoud Maarawi
May Adra
Tickets are to be collected same day from Gulbenkian Ticket Booth between 11 am and 1 pm or 1 hour prior to the performance
About the playwright
Samuel
Beckett was born on April 13, 1906 in Ireland. His work sheds the light
on the absurdity of the human existence, - the constant search for
meaning, individual isolation… Educated in Ireland, North and South, he
settled afterwards in Paris and produced his fiction and drama in
English and French, translating himself out of the language in which he
first wrote each text.
He was accorded the Nobel Prize for Literature in
1969, he refused, however, to attend the ceremony to receive the award.
Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil, his wife, when Beckett won the prize, said:
"This is a catastrophe."
Infamously isolated in relation to the press and
media, Beckett was nevertheless spoken of by personal associates as
friendly, gracious, humorous and compassionate.
His
most famous work include “Waiting for Godot (1950), Endgame (1957),
trilogy of novels Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnameable (written
1947-50) and others.
About the play
Endgame
was originally written in French in 1957 and was translated to English
by Becket himself a year later. It is said that Endgame is one of the
most famous plays written by Beckett. An absurd tragicomedy, it raises
existential questions in comical terms reflecting the post-apocalyptic
world that followed both World Wars.
Director’s word
The only way out is action.
Tel: 01-78 64 64 ext.1172
www.lau.edu.lb
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