Beckett Briefs

The Irish Rep gathers three short works by Nobel savage Samuel Beckett in a tryptich directed by the company's own Ciarán O’Reilly. The always compelling F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus) stars as a bitter man reflecting on his wasted life as he listens to recordings he made 30 years earlier in the evening's longest piece, Krapp's Last Tape (1958). That show is preceded by a pair of stark curtain-raisers: Not I (1972), a mouth-running monologue performed by Sarah Street; and Play (1964), in which Street, Roger Dominic Casey and Kate Forbes play a trio of inurned figures who babble about their love triangle.