Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Krapp's Last Tape / La Dernière Bande

MS-UoR-1227-7-7-1

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Segment 1

Should Kra Krapp move away
from table when standing?
To stool front, on which he has left
uneaten banana?
Then hasten back to put on
other reel?
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Or stay at table for recording?
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Segment 2

Truquage
Do not remove lid of machine,
x xxing thus unxxx
hidden from majority of
audience.
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Segment 3

K. x only appears to load tape
on machine.
Actually it is
inxxx already ready loaded.
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Thus Similar he [] only appears to change reels
when he wishes to record.
Actually he leaves in position the
tape reel already loaded
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Segment 4

Similarly at the end only he only appears to change
reels again.
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Objection: The raised lid will
obscure Krapp's face
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Title 1
Tape recording
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