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PATRICK MARMION reviews Krapp's Last Tape at York's Theatre Royal: Gary Oldman's return to the stage after 37 years makes perfect sense
The Hollywood star has chosen to make his stage comeback - after 37 years - in Samuel Beckett's 50-minute monologue about a rueful old git, surveying the paltry wreckage of his life.
Just like Lamb, the significantly named Krapp is a man who has given up on personal appearances and raised a solitary finger to decorum, with his smelly feet, greasy hair and unguarded flatulence. Wearing the waistcoat and collarless shirt of a music hall clown, his real-life paunch means he’s oven-ready for the part — even if his actorly jog off stage belies his character’s heavy, breathless entry up a flight of stairs. Even so, he manages what seems like a damp eye at recollections of time spent with a lover on a boat in the sun — a tenderness that is not easily transmitted in the huge Victorian cavern of the Theatre Royal.
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