one-act

Krapp’s Last Tape, a one-act play about an old man listening to his younger self via taped recordings, will run from 14 April to 17 May 2025.

The lady’s chagrined reaction, as caught by a cameraman and transmitted to the giant screen at the rear of the stage, was like a little one-act play about access to stardom in pop’s parasocial age.

Language is inadequate to the suffering he has wrought, but Beckett manages to give it artistic form in “Play,” his daring one-act in which a husband, wife and mistress rehash their story of infidelity at warp speed while planted in funeral urns in some indeterminate afterlife.

The atmosphere is earnest and soulful, imbued with the makings of a one-act play setting and populated with a cast of characters.

On May 19, Seattle-based Music of Remembrance presents the world premiere of this one-act chamber opera as its season finale before taking the production on tour to San Francisco and Chicago.