A Krapp Life
JOHN COLE
Academy Award Director nominee Stockard Channing (remember Grease?) brings her production of Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape to the Kino Theatre on 13 November. The monologue is a journey through an old man’s life, filled with hilarious memories and hopes for the future, coupled with mourning for lost love and unfulfilled ambition.
David Westhead as Krapp
This production has toured globally throughout 2025, and has been brought to life in disused function rooms, underground vaults, former jails, and dusty factories. Bringing her unique directorial vision to this production, Channing explores the intricate layers of Beckett’s masterpiece, and Krapp’s solitary world. It stars David Westhead, whose numerous credits include W1A, Mrs Brown, Iron Lady, Strike, and The Bodyguard, but who is also a veteran of The National Theatre and the RSC. This 50-minute one-acter is the life of Krapp who, at the age of 69, tries to make sense of his life through listening to tape recordings, made as a younger man, which diarise the daily events of his life.
John McAndrew of the RSC praised the production as “Just terrific… brilliant, outrageous, and heartbreaking,” and it continues to captivate audiences worldwide with its exploration of memory, lost love, and unfulfilled ambition.
ticketsource.co.uk/kinoteatr/krapp-s-last-tape-live-theatre/e-zejeby All profits from this production will be donated to The Wembley to Soweto Foundation, wembleytosoweto.com/communitiesinfocus. David Westhead’s details: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Westhead
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