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Ohio Impromptu

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  • Drámadóir

    Samuel Beckett 

  • Nótaí

    Written in English.

  • Achoimre

    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.

  • Cinéal Dráma

    Drámaí Ginearálta

    Líon na Míreanna

    Aon-ghníomh

    • Cast size

  • Male

    1

  • Total

    1

Céad Léiriú

  • 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.
Foireann An Chéad Léirithe  
Foireann Léirithe  
Stiúrthóir Alan Schneider

Scripteanna Foilsithe

  • Teideal

    Samuel Beckett: The Complete Dramatic Works

  • Bliain

    1986

  • Foilsithe ag

    Faber and Faber

  • Seoladh

    74-77 Great Russell Street
    London WC1B 3DA
    England

  • Guthán

    + 44 (0)20 7465 0045

  • Ríomhphost

    contact@faber.co.uk

  • Suíomh Idirlín

    www.faber.co.uk

  • ISBN

    0571144861

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Eolas Faoi Chearta

  • Críoch

    All Territories

  • Cinéal Cearta

    All Rights

  • Teagmháil

    The Estate of Samuel Beckett

  • Seoladh

    c/o Curtis Brown Haymarket House, 28/29 Haymarket,
    London SW1Y 4SP
    England

  • Guthán

    + 44 (0) 20 7396 6600

  • Ríomhphost

    cb@curtisbrown.co.uk

  • Suíomh Idirlín

    www.curtisbrown.co.uk

Foinse Eolais

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