Oscar-winning stage and screen star Gary Oldman will return to the theatre where he began his career, the York Theatre Royal, for a revival of Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape.
Performances of the one-act drama will begin April 14, 2025, and continue through May 17. The creative team will be announced at a later date.
Beckett's play follows Krapp, who, each birthday, records a new tape reflecting on the year gone by. On his 69th birthday, now a lonely man, he is ready with a bottle of wine, a banana, and his tape recorder. Listening back to a recording he made as a young man, Krapp must face the hopes of his past self.
CEO Paul Crewes said in a statement, 鈥淲hen Gary visited us at the beginning of the year, it was fascinating hearing him recount stories of his time as a young man, in his first professional role on the York Theatre Royal stage. In that context when we started to explore ideas, we realized Krapp鈥�s Last Tape was the perfect project. I am very happy that audiences will have this unique opportunity to see Gary Oldman return to our stage in this brand-new production.鈥�
Oldman received the 2018 Academy Award for his performance as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour. His numerous other film credits include Sirius Black in the Harry Potter franchise; Commissioner Jim Gordon in Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (Academy Award nomination); Mank (Academy Award nomination); Oppenheimer; and more. In 1995 Oldman and producing partner Douglas Urbanski founded a production company, which produced Oldman鈥檚 screenwriting and directorial debut, Nil By Mouth.
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