Endgame Play at Gulbenkian Theater

The Gulbenkian Theater of the Lebanese American University is hosting a performance of the play “Endgame” by Samuel Beckett and directed by Nur Fakhoury.

Synopsis: The setting for Endgame is a bare, partially underground room, serving as shelter for the four characters: Hamm the master, Clov his servant, and Hamm’s father and mother, Nagg and Nell (who live in garbage cans). Hamm is in a wheelchair and makes Clov move him around the room, fetch objects, and look out the window for signs of life.

Outside all seems dead and nothing happens. Inside, the characters pass the time mortifying each other and toying with fears and illusions of a possible change, all along sensing the inevitability of their end.