Krapp's Last Tape review — Stephen Rea is compelling throughout
Samuel Beckett's stage directions are densely detailed, but every actor does their Krapp their own way. Gary Oldman's current York production has his Krapp sitting listening to recordings of himself in an attic study crammed with bookish rubbish. Here at the Barbican in London, in a show first seen in Dublin last year, Stephen Rea is a rumpled figure in a mess-free monochrome vault. A stray banana skin or obtrusive tin of audio tape? He chucks them merrily into the darkness next to the sharp rectangle of light he occupies. He needs to check a word in his dictionary? He walks up a shaft of light upstage, then through a black door that slides open with Star Trek swishness. Same words, same costume of white
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