The idea that Samuel Beckett’s plays are actually funny in performance is considerably more honored in theory than in practice. But happily, a rare pairing of his “Endgame” and the little-seen “Rou…
raise considerably more laughs than you’d expect from a double-bill about enduring life and death.
As the two men methodically sift through the man’s files filled with testaments to and memories of a life deeply ordinary, Cumming is simultaneously punctilious and bumptious. His obsession with order and his fiery determination to deal with the matter swiftly drives him to distraction, winning unexpectedly big laughs of recognition. Radcliffe, meanwhile, is his more buoyant, hopeful foil, accentuating the positive with a bright beaming demeanor..
Clov is described as having a “stiff, staggering walk,” so Radcliffe’s hobbled gait as he clambers repeatedly up and down ladders in an attempt to look out of the two high windows is not just technically correct but, in Jones’ meticulous hands, a perky silent comedy routine. Those others include his tender parents Nagg and Nell who, famously, live in über-Beckett style in dustbins. Popping up to give the perspective of lives long-lived, they are peachy parts with elegantly written soliloquies of sadness, punctuated by stabs of comedy. As Nagg, Karl Johnson is patient and deeply touching in his sense of forbearance, and he’s matched by Jane Horrocks, who ages up about 40 years to play Nell, beautifully besieged by memory.
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