Samuel Beckett's Endgame is one of the great existential works. The play is set in a bunker in an apocalyptic world, occupied by four characters Hamm, Clov, Nagg and Nell. Through the process of trying to tell a story, Hamm, the blind and disabled tyrant and protagonist, takes the audience on a journey of quirky and absurd dialogue with his servant Clov. Hamm's parents, Nagg and Nell, are confined to ash-bins, Hamm is confined to his chair, and Clov cannot rest.
Performed by extremely talented matric learners at Michaelhouse, Endgame will offer a wonderfully entertaining ponder at the state of the world we live in from the voices of teenagers full of hope, and from a prophetic writer who helped shaped our existential thoughts through plays like Waiting for Godot.
