Krapp’s Last Band is a complex essay about loneliness. In this “monodrama”, as it has sometimes been called, the old Krapp, a failed and alienated writer, dialogues in an absurd way with his youthful self, listening to an old magnetic tape every year, a kind of diary in which memories of the loss of his mother, the joy of love and the sadness of separation are woven into a jigsaw puzzle that forms his lifeline. Coping with abandonment and loneliness, now, 30 years after the tape was recorded, he seems unable to make sense of his existence except by nostalgically and sarcastically recalling his youthful years.
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