The star actor returns to the theater where he started almost a half-century ago, with Samuel Beckett’s bleak one-man play.

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The production marks Oldman's return to the stage after 37 years but ultimately fails to live up to that homecoming ...

The actor performs Samuel Beckett’s melancholy solo piece at the York Theatre Royal, where he made his professional debut in 1979 ...

Here, forty-six years ago, Gary Oldman made his professional stage debut. Not far away, thirty years after that, I sat ...

Back on the stage where he made his theatre debut in 1979, the Slow Horses star pours everything into Beckett’s bleak ...

The production, running until 17 May, marks a homecoming for Oldman, who began his professional acting career at the venue ...

He who takes on Krapp is on stage for just 50 minutes, gets fewer lines than the voice of the tape recording they are listening to, coughs and sighs as much as they speak and must be fascinating ...

Krapp’s Last Tape is at York Theatre Royal until May 17, 2025. For more information, click here.

Happy 69th birthday, Krapp, lothario, writer and recorder of fading memories and failing powers. Time to record that last tape, to consign life to the dustbin, like the discarded banana skins.