Digital Manuscript ProjectKrapp's Last Tape / La Dernière Bande

[0005] [Red rusty baggy] Rusty black narrow trousers, [⁁] too short for him.[0006] [Black] [xxx]
Rusty black sleeveless waistcoat, 4 pockets.[0007] [xxx xxx]
Heavy silver watch & chain.[0008] Grimy white
shirt open at neck. No collar.
[0009] Surprising pair of [yellow boots] white [cricket] boots,
size ten, very narrow & pointed.
[0010] Pallid face.[0011] Purple nose.
[0014] Very near-sighted and[0015] hard of
hearing.[0014] No glasses.
[0016] Croaking voice,[0017] [characterist] characteristic accent.
[0019] On the table a tape-recorder and
a number of cardboard boxes
containing recorded tapes.
[0020] Table and immediately adjacent area
in strong light.[0021] Rest of stage in shadow
darkness.
[0036] A (reading from ledger, his nose down on it).
[0037] Box three Box ... thrrree ... spool ... five.
[0038] (He turns his [head] front without [rai]
and stares front.[0039] With relish.)[0040] Spool!
[0041] (Pause.)[0042] Spooool![0045] (He turns back to
table, starts peering & poking
at the boxes.)
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Krapp's Last Tape / La Dernière Bande © 2015 Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project.
Editors: Dirk Van Hulle and Vincent Neyt