Further casting has been announced for Samuel Beckett’s masterful “Endgame,” directed by one of Beckett’s most celebrated interpreters, Alan Mandell, at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, April 24 through May 22. The formal opening is May 1.
Mandell (“Waiting for Godot,” “The Price” and “The Cherry Orchard,” all at the Mark Taper Forum) will perform at the Douglas with Barry McGovern (“I’ll Go On” at the Douglas, “Waiting for Godot,” at the Mark Taper Forum), Anne Gee Byrd (“The Wood Demon” and “The First Picture Show,” at the Taper), James Greene (“The Iceman Cometh” and 20 other plays on Broadway) and Charlotte Rae (“Happy Days,” at the Taper). Charlotte Rae and Anne Gee Byrd will alternate in the role of Nell.
Rick Cluchey originally was announced as part of the cast, but he died in December.
In the absurdist world of “Endgame,” somewhere between existence and death, four characters, Hamm (played by Mandell), Clov (McGovern), Nagg (Greene) and Nell (Rae and Byrd), cling to sanity while performing daily rituals, sometimes comically, as they wrestle some sort of order from the cyclical, repetitious, seeming nothingness of life.
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