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Ohio Impromptu

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Samuel Beckett
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Written in English.
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Ohio Impromptu opens with a figure clad in black with long white hair hiding his face and sitting on a white chair at a white table. There are two characters, the Reader and the Listener. The Reader, it emerges, is a mysterious messenger from someone now dead and once loved by the Listener. The book the Reader reads from tells the story of the Listener mourning right up until the last moment, when the story is told for the last time and 'there is nothing left to tell'. Throughout, the Listener not only listens but also regulates his companion's reading by knocking on the table with his hand in an attempt to ensure that this will not be the final telling of the tale.
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Méid na Fóirne ( Fireann)

1

Dáta an Chéad Léirithe

1981
Nótaí faoin Léiriú
First produced at Ohio State University, USA, as part of a symposium to celebrate the author's seventy-fifth birthday.
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Ionad an Chéad Léirithe

Foireann An Chéad Léirithe

Foireann Léirithe
Stiúrthóir	Alan Schneider

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The Estate of Samuel Beckett
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The information for this entry was taken from 'Samuel Beckett: Collected Plays' (Faber and Faber, 1986) and from various other sources.