Samuel Beckett's Ohio Impromptu (2000) with Jeremy Irons
Ohio Impromptu, written in 1980, 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.
'With
never a word exchanged they grew to be as one.'
– Ohio Impromptu –
– Ohio Impromptu –
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