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

MS-UoR-1227-7-7-1

MS. Pages: cover - 13r 13v - 18r 18v - 23r 23v - 25r
[p. 23v]

Bracken
Hickey
Murdy
Mongly
Foley
Weaver
Convoy
Tuite
Keeley
Wade
Leaden
Sote
Tisdall
Cobbe
Moult
Needham
Harney
McGlone
Siney

[p. 24r]

Thou art gone, the two, the whole,
And we mourn you in vain,
For those eyes that beamed with
lovelight
Ne'er shall rest on us again

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Like falling xx leaves the years
roll by
But memories of you will never die

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In a garden of rest, no worry, no pain,
God keep you, Mick, until we
meet again

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A tireless worker, good and true,
One in a million, mother, were you.

[p. 24v]

DOODLE 39

[p. 25r]
Tape recording

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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Truquage

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

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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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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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