Galway International Arts Festival 2024: Garry Hynes directs Rory Nolan, Aaron Monaghan, Marie Mullen and Bosco Hogan
Endgame review: Druid’s exquisite production brings a lightness of step to Beckett’s indestructible tragicomedyYvonne McGuinness: ‘I’m much more at ease in the muck of a field than I am with a red carpet’
The play remains, however, as unfettered as ever. Endgame is everywhere and nowhere. One is again reminded that, even before Beckett became a legend, he was already making jokes at the expense of his own addiction to creative misery. “Nothing is funnier than unhappiness,” Nell says, economically summarising the great man’s entire career.
Though the usual mortal terrors hang over this production, it distinguishes itself from previous incarnations by the lightness of its step. Hogan and Mullen, the cast’s distinguished eminences, make prickly children of the wretched, ill-treated waste matter. Nolan, wrapped in a ragged robe that looks to have been costly when new, is unusually ageless for Hamm; that sense of a not-yet-decrepit man aping old age adds to his pomposity. Monaghan moves with a waddle that owes much to the comedy of silent cinema. All speak with admirable clarity that allows the bleak wit to crackle anew. If, that is, something bleak can crackle.
Druid-Theatre-Company Garry-Hynes Marie-Mullen Bosco-Hogan Aaron-Monaghan Rory-Nolan Samuel-Beckett
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